Photoshop Flag

I chose the Puerto rican flag because, I guess, that’s a part of my heritage, although I feel absolutely no special connection with the place. My mom often takes the express time to point out that since I was not born there that I am not Puerto rican, and she never even bothered teaching me Spanish growing up. – Anyway, I uploaded the pictures in the order of the steps it took to make the image. I actually made the flag image from scratch. That was easy, basic shapes. Then I found a cloth image and turned it into a grayscale displacement map, which included blurring it a bit. I applied it to the flag via the filters tool. After all that, I overlayed the cloth image using the multiply tool, and finally I adjusted the contrast to get the final image. Photoshop 101. I learn more from the internet than I do from college and I pay much less for the internet than my college tuition.

~ by jonathanmilling on October 28, 2008.