How To Change The Material Of Objects In Photoshop

If you ever wanted to change the material of an object in a photo this tutorial is exactly what you have been looking for. On this video Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV guide you through the process.

This tutorial looks at how you select your subject, cut it out of the background and work on it in a step by step way to change the color (in this case the statue of liberty Material into a sort of Wood texture using a displacement map.

If you want to practice – you can get the Statue of Liberty photo from the video from here. The wooden texture can also be found here.

We have already lloked at adding textures to photos (although in a different way) on several other videos including “Adding Texture to Photographs Using Photoshop” with Julieanne Kost, “How to Add a Background Texture to a Portrait in Photoshop” with Aaron Nace and Using Textures to Enhance Your Photos with photographer Lindsay Adler.

You can find many more Photoshop video tutorials on LensVid’s Photoshop section.

Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.