Flag Tutorial

Made by: Nick

In this tutorial I'll show how to give a plain flag the effect of motion (moving in the wind), here I'll use this Red rectangle as my flag


 

First Make a new layer


 

then select the Gradient tool


 

and use White-Black gradient with Reflected Mode as shown in the image below


 

Now make a small rectangular selection, That is taller than the flag in height, but smaller than it's half its width


 

and fill it using the gradient tool


 

again make another selection beside the last one, and fill it


 

keep doing this in random width of each selection


 

Now save the file as PSD file (the gradients layer should be the only visible layer when you save the file). This is so you can re-use the same pattern for other flags whenever you want to repeat this.


 

after saving the file, make the gradients layer invisible


 

and then for the flag layer, Apply this filter (Distort > Displace)


 

Use these values and Click OK!


 

now you will be asked for a file, use the one we have just saved


 

and Finally, make the gradients layer visible again, but change its mode to Overlay


 

Final Result

This final result would probably look much better if it were a real flag i'd used at the start...but the same process applies to creating it.