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Glass Distortion
The Glass Distortion dynamic plug-in creates a layer that applies Glass Distortion to the imagery beneath it. You can move the layer in the document to view the distortion over different imagery.
For best results, you should have interesting imagery beneath the Glass Distortion dynamic layer.
The Glass Distortion dynamic layer in action.
To create a Glass Distortion dynamic layer
- Make a selection in the document window if you want the new dynamic layer to be a specific size.
- On the Layers palette, click the Dynamic Plug-ins button and choose Glass Distortion.
- In the Glass Distortion Options dialog box, choose a displacement source from the Using pop-up menu.
- Paper uses the selected paper texture. Paper texture is good for creating the pebbled glass effect. Unless you want frosted glass, you'll probably want to increase the scale of the paper.
- Current Selection uses the current selection.
- Image Luminance uses the current document's luminance.
- Original Luminance uses the clone source's luminance.
Image pixels are displaced based on the light and dark areas of the source.
- Inverted, when enabled, lets you work with an inversion of the selected source.
- Softness controls the transitions between displaced colors. Increasing softness creates more intermediate steps, which produces a smoother distortion. If you experience aliasing in a glass distortion, try increasing Softness.
- Amount controls the degree of displacement. A higher amount leads to more distortion.
- Variance creates multiple variations in the neighborhood of the displacement. The result of increasing variance depends on the type of image and other settings.
- You can also use the Opacity slider on the Layers palette to adjust the Glass Distortion effect.
- You can move the Glass Distortion layer in the document window to distort other areas of the image.
The Glass Distortion dynamic layer using Paper
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