How to Use Displacement Map Effect in After Effects

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Adobe After Effects CC 2025: How to Use Displacement Map Effect

**Description:
**This tutorial will show you how to use the Displacement Map Effect to distort or shift pixels horizontally or vertically in Adobe After Effects CC 2025.

Adobe Documentation:
Displacement Effect


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Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About The Tutorial
00:11 Distort Category + Compound Effect
01:02 How To Apply Displacement Map
01:46 Select Displacement Map Layer
02:08 Black, White & 50% Grey
02:57 Color Control Layers
03:37 Example 1: Whitewater Text Animation
04:07 Add Displacement Map Effect
04:49 Finishing Touch: Gausian Blur
05:12 Example 2: Line Boil Animation
05:37 Example 3: Wiggle Displacement
06:11 Example 4: Glitchy Text
06:29 Fractal or Turbulent Noise Effects
07:09 KeyFraming Displacements
08:01 Finishing Touches

**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2025 (Click To Try or Buy)

How To Add Displacement Map Effect:

1. Add Footage Layer
2. Add Text Layer
3. Add or Create Layer To Be Control Layer or Displacement Map
4. Select Text Layer Layer
5. Go to Effect Menu…Distort
6. Select ‘Displacement Map’
7. Go to ‘Effect Controls’ Panel
8. Click the drop-down next to ‘Displacement Map Layer’
9. Select ‘Control’ Layer (Displacement Map Layer)
10. Click ‘Source’ drop-down and change to ‘Effects & Masks’
11. Change Channel (optional)
12. Change values for Horizontal & Vertical Displacement to achieve desired effects

• 13. Finishing Touches: Consider adding ‘Gausian or Fast Box Blur’, ‘Curves/Levels’ and or ‘Tint’ Effect