# PhotoshopElements

# Displace

The Displace filter uses an image, called a displacement map , to determine how to distort a selection. For example, using a parabola-shaped displacement map, you can create an image that appears to be printed on a cloth held at its corners.

### Apply the Displace filter

1. Select an image, layer, or area.
2. Choose Distort > Displace from the Filter menu.
3. To define the magnitude of the displacement, enter a value between ‑999 and 999 in the Horizontal and Vertical Scale text boxes.

   When the horizontal and vertical scales are 100%, the greatest displacement is 128 pixels (because middle gray produces no displacement).

4. If the displacement map is not the same size as the selection, select how you want the map to fit the image:
   Stretch To Fit
     Resizes the map.

   Tile
     Fills the selection by repeating the map in a pattern.

5. Select how to fill voids that are created by the filter in the image, and click OK.
   Wrap Around
     Fills voids with content from the opposite edge of the image.

   Repeat Edge Pixels
     Extends the colors of pixels along the image’s edge in the direction you specify.

6. Select and open the displacement map. Photoshop Elements applies the map to the image.

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