Paintshopblog welcomes your participation in our new discussion forums

Paintshopblog.com (PSB) welcomes your participation in our Discussion Forums. Our forums are  brand new and always open to new comers. We hope to build a large community of Paint Shop Pro users, that can come together to share their expertise, learn new things, make friends, and/or simply show their support for this wonderful piece of software we call Paint Shop Pro.

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How to use displacement maps to create realistic overlay effects in Corel Paint Shop Pro

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to use displacement maps to create realistic looking overlay effects that appear to be actually painted onto the surface. Displacement maps simply follow the contour of any texture, and then produces natural looking distortion effects on the layer above it. For example, if you painted your name on a rock or tree in real life, the paint would follow the contours of the rocks or bark and there would be a natural distortion. However, in Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 if you paint text over top of a texture without using Displacement maps, the text wouldn’t have any distortions, it would just be Read more