Hello to all Hive learners from far and wide, if you've being following some of my graphic works, you would notice where I mentioned that lately, I have been amazed and fascinated by the concept of brick wall art, actually, I can't pinpoint when this infatuation started, I dont think it an obsession, at least not yet anyways. This was a sort of attraction that came from seeing various street wall art here and there. Yeah, I find the principle, the concept of converting a bland wall, especially a brick wall kind of wall that nobody would even care to look at, bat an eyelid for into something extraordinary that attracts the attention of both young and old, using nothing but the power of colors, and the artistic movements of the hand. To me, that is really trully amazing, and incredible ,breathing life into something that seems dead, giving it more life through visual perception.

The only difference is that this time I am not doing it the traditional way, I am taking advantage of the power of technology, doing what I enjoy from the comfort of my room. I would be showcasing the life I brought to a brick wall using my previous design done on a #creative-Sunday like this 👇👇

The process outlined 👇👇

The Original Images used for this design were gotten from pixabay.com and my previous #creative-sunday design 👇👇

Ok I got the image of a brick wall, in this case preferably white, you can get this from sites like pixabay and pexel, in this case mine was gotten from pixabay
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First image

source

second image

created by me in Photoshop for previous #creative-sunday

Process of creation Outlined

Okay the first thing you do is to open the first image of the brick wall in photoshop and create a displacement map for it using the filter tab. Here is how,

First: open the image of the brick wall in photoshop, go to Blur under filter, then select gaussian blur.

Second: You desaturate the image converting it to black and white by pressing Shift + Ctrl + U

Thirdly you save this newly created image after the above steps has been done successfully in PSD format, go to file then save as then select PSD format. Then click save after giving it a name

Now you have a displacement Map to be used later

After saving revert back to the original brick wall image, it will serve as a first layer

screenshot below 👇👇

Now open the second image to be used on the brick wall as a second layer above the brick wall layer

Here is what you do after doing this:

- First : Select the image and go the filter tab

- Second: When at the filter tab select displace, then for the settings you see, keep them at 10 and 10 then select stretch to fit and wrap-around

-Third:After this select ok, at this point you will be taken to computer, here select the saved PSD file.

Then you have the below

some modifications has to be doen to the above, here they are 👇

- Fourth: After, now you have to blend the result, you do this by right-clicking the second layer with the mouse, select for this purpose, under blend, I selected "difference effect" look, it is as shown in the screenshot below

so the difference effect under blend gave the above result