Wrapping an image using a displacement map

In this movie, I'll show you how to wrap these orangish bars around the contours …of these rounded letters using a displacement map in order to produce this …effect here. So we'll be both creating the …displacement map and applying it inside this movie. …Alright, I'll go ahead and switch back to the image at hand here, and you want to …go back to the Channels panel, and scroll all the way down to the last channel, G …Blur Four Multiply. Now right click on this channel, and …chose the duplicate channel command. And then change the document to new, so …that we're copying the channel to it's own image.…

Now Photoshop should automatically switch you to this image as it has done for me. …In which case you want to go up to the image menu,chose mode and chose …greyscale. In order to convert this from a so called …multi-channel image to a standard grayscale one. …And now go up to the image menu, choose adjustments and choose the levels …command. And you want to change this first output …levels value to 128, and click Okay. And what that does is it changes all of …