Applying A Texture As If It Were A Bump Map - Photo

[Brittney]

Hello Affinity Forums! This is my first post here, so I'm not sure if this is the right place for my question. I'm sorry if it isn't. 

 

I am still kind of new to Affinity Photo and I'm looking for a way to combine a photo with a texture as I can do with programs like Gimp, Paintshop Pro, and Photoshop. Essentially, I have been able to add the texture over a photo to work sort of like a bump map. It blends nicely and makes the photo wrap around the visual texture. So, for example, if I apply a crumpled paper texture to a photo, the photo then looks realistically crumpled. (See attached examples.) I usually did this with blend modes, especially if I used the High Frequency layer from a separation frequency. Or, in Paintshop, I could use the displacement filter. 

 

The problem is that in Photo, the blend modes seem to do something different than they do in other programs and it doesn't map the texture to the image the way I expected. I tried the displace filter, but it seems to just add a bunch of scattered "noise" instead of displacing to the actual texture. Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a completely different way to do this in Affinity Photo?  

 

I have looked everywhere and still haven't found a solution. The suggestions I've tried just don't seem to work. I really don't want to have to finish my work in a different program, as that breaks up my workflow. Thank you for your time and efforts in answering my question.

Examples.zip

[DM1]

Unfortunately the current implementation of Displacement filter in Affinity Photo does not behave as most users would desire. There is a thread on the forum discussing this issue. It’s is unclear whether the developers feel it is actually working as developers intended, rather than as users expected. If working as intended, no problem for them to fix. But then users still need a way to achieve what you are attempting to do. Hopefully this gets fixed to users requirement rather than developers. 

[Brittney]

Thank you for your reply. I didn't know there was a thread about it. Hopefully someone knows of a way around this and fills me/us in on it. Until then, I guess I will just have to use a different program to achieve the effect I want.  I agree, I hope it gets fixed as well. It's quite misleading... at least it is for me. 

[DM1]

Here’s the thread in case you are interested.

 

[Brittney]

Thank you so much.