I got some great help here back in February when I had only been studying Photoshop for two weeks. Now I'm a seasoned user of three months. [Hysterical laughter!] I'm on that hamster wheel where you do the thing over and over again and can't see why it isn't working. Excuse me while I run to the kitchen for some cracked corn and greens...

I'm wanting to wrap a snake texture over a woman's face similar to what I found in a tutorial here: <http://www.tutcity.com/view/texture-wrapping.2843.html>

When I did this tutorial everything worked fine, but it is not working when I do it with my own document. The breakdown is in the filter>distort>displace step.

This is what happens when I do it
I created a grayscale image of a face and saved it on the background layer (which I unlocked by renaming it Layer 1).
The grayscale image has plenty of light and dark areas-- good contrast. I saved that doc as "bighead.psd," and it has only one [unlocked] layer. I DID save with Maximize Compatibility turned ON. And I saved it in a folder with the snakeskin document that I will be wrapping over it. [These were two possible displace function issues that I found in a search of this forum.]
I go to the doc that has the snakeskin on a layer. I control-click on the layer thumbnail to select the snakeskin.
I go to filter>distort>displace.
I choose 10% horizontal and 10% vertical, stretch to fit, and repeat edge pixels. I navigate to the document "bighead.psd" and hit okay. Not only does nothing happen, but NOTHING EVEN SHOWS UP IN THE HISTORY PANEL.

After doing this a zillion times, I tried an experiment. I went to the document with the snakeskin, control-clicked on the layer thumbnail to select. I chose filter>distort>displace, but instead of navigating to bighead.psd (the displacement map I created), I navigated to the displacement map that I downloaded used earlier today when I was doing the tutorial (also a psd document, a grayscale image of a woman's face).

I made exactly the same choices as described above, and when I hit "open," the displacement DID work and the step "displace" DID show up in the history panel. I figured something must be different about the two displacement map documents???

I've brought both displacement map documents up side by side in two windows and I've been going back and forth between them trying to see any difference.

I know the software is very literal-minded, so there must be some small thing wrong that I'm not seeing. I hope someone can see what I'm not seeing.

Thanks.

EvelynC

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