: How do you make this colour displacement type image I found this on itunes radio and want to know how this was achieved like how the triangle was made. I have come up with this so far

@Eichhorn212

There are several ways you could create this effect, and several programs you could do this in. In all cases, the basic idea is:


Start with a base image — in this case, a sunset over the sea.
Make several copies of the base image — here, there seem to be four copies. Resize and/or move the copies so that they don't match exactly.
Create a triangular shape, and make several (here, three) copies of it. The triangle here seems to be just a simple equilateral triangle standing on one corner, but you could use some other shape, too. Scale the copies so that they form the nice nested arrangement seen in the image.
Set the scaled triangles as mask / clip shapes on the upper copies of the base image, so that only the part of the image within the triangle is visible.
Optionally, tweak the colors, contrast and lightness of each copy of the base image. However, you may find that just the intrinsic color variations between different parts of the image are enough to produce the desired effect.


Since Photoshop has already been suggested as one program you could do this in, let me instead show how to do it in Inkscape, a free vector graphics editor:


First, we need a base image. I picked a random snapshot I took with my cell phone while sailing. It's not quite as pretty and pink as the sunset in your image above (at least not without some serious color tweaking), but it'll do for an example:


Next, we'll open up Inkscape and, create a triangle using the polygon / star tool, and we make some copies of it and scale them. Note how the outer copies extend outside the page area:



Next, we'll import the base photo into Inkscape and scale it so that it covers the whole image. This'll be our base layer:


Next, we copy the photo, move and rescale it so that it mostly shows the waves. Then we select the scaled copy and the outermost triangle, and use the Object → Clip → Set tool to clip the image within the triangle:



Then we repeat the process for the middle triangle:



...and finally for the innermost triangle:



As a finishing touch, let's add some text on top:




We could also tweak the colors in the images using filters, or by editing the images in a raster graphics editor. However, as shown by the examples above, that's not really necessary for producing this effect — just moving and scaling the images is enough.

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@Sue6373160

The photo has been realigned in the triangle shapes to create greater contrast. Then combinations of colour/gradient overlays, adjustment layers and blend modes have been applied in Photoshop. Experiment with these/research lomography effects

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