Displacement map does not work as per Tuition.

[ronecc]

I have been following the tuition video about using Displacement layer.

I open a jpeg photo of a piece of grained wood. As I do not have the 'Find' link on the photo, as in the video, I open a pgn file of a letter D. 

I copy and past it onto the wood.

I then open a Displace layer and can sort of adjust the letter so that the colour of it spreads along the wood somewhat. I reset the adjustment back to zero on the slider and try the blend option as per video. When I use this only the sides of the letter change, very slightly. It will not fade the letter at all to blend it to the wood.

The letter D was designed in Serif Draw and has 3D bevels and colour effects. Could this be what is causing the problem?

 I just tried a letter that I had opened and saved as a png, with Affinity Phot, that I am trying this displacement on, but it has not worked with that file either. 

I forgot to add I am using Beta 1.6.5.119

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, ronecc said:

I forgot to add I am using Beta 1.6.5.119

The current retail release is 1.8.5, and the current beta release is 1.9.0.

Please recheck your release

If you're really on 1.6.5 beta the first thing you should do, in my opinion, is update to the current release.

 

[ronecc]

Thanks I will. I have it sorted somewhat now. I found a post, eventually by somebody who had poster a get around on Youtube and it worked.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. Glad it's sorted