These are kind of fun

A hornbill on peeling paint

Beautiful! I love the textures you used.

Great results! =)

Thank you Photomaster & Rod !


With a smoother background texture

And with a very distressed paint peel

Up my street - like the effects a lot.

Always coming up with something new.

Thank you Skinnyhouse and Sallyanne <-(I want to learn map it to a 'plane' and then rotate it) when I get home...

You will no problem
Just go to Filters > map > map object > and select 'plane' which should be the default one open.
To rotate your picture just click on the orientation tab.

Thanks Sallyanne, tried it on a few things and it works good, just have to remember to have plenty of canvas or things tend to get trimmed!

Slight return to the wigs.

Hummingbird with exaggerated distressed peeling baseboard paint

Used a piano keyboard photo instead of peeling paint on this one.

Animicule, what is your workflow to get such clarity? Do you start with the peeled paint and bump the photo onto it, or the opposite? Do you use any other filter over it?

Sorry Pat, I just get an idea and try
whatever it takes to get close to what
I think it should look like. It never
really turns out that way, but close enough.
I only spend about 5 minutes at it while doing
other things. It's just play.
I know I have tried mapping each to themselves,
then one to the other and then layer play

Animicule, tried to upload an image for you to critique for me but I cannot upload at all now. Earlier today it was on & off.

I tried your technic on peeling paint. But I still can't upload the image. Thanks a lot.

Yes, not much fun without some pictures.
I do use color mode and also the mapped images at various opacities.
I just never paid attention to what my fingers were doing.

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