Masters Academy

Polaroid Transfer

This lesson includes a layered template file that you can use to simulate the look of a Polaroid transfer. That’s a traditional analog photographic effect that produces a textured image with an irregular edge. As a bonus, I also show how a mask was created that is used within the template. I didn’t think to demo how the distortion was applied, but it was via a technique known as a Displacement Map, which has been covered in an earlier lesson.