On the occasion of 68th Republic day.
In this tutorial, I am trying to create the Tri-colour flag in motion using Photoshop. But not only this effect is used for flag can be used for anything.
the final output will be the
Step 1 : First thing first choose your images a. Tri-colour flag image b. fabric image, you can use mine also…
Step 2: Put both the images in Photoshop.
Select the fabric image and apply Gaussian Blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) and experiment with the radius to hide the detail of the fabric, keeping only the folds
Step 3: Save
Save the work as tricoloflag.psd
Make sure you save it as .psd file so further steps will work properly
Step 4: Apply the effect on flag.
Select the flag image.
Apply the displacement map filter to your flag with your fabric photo (Filter > Distort > Displace)
And select your tricolorflag.psd then selecting flag layer apply Hard light filer to the flag layer
The final output should be the same as below image.
Inspiration from http://www.instructables.com/id/Creating-A-Realistic-3D-Flag-In-PhotoShop/?ALLSTEPS