view a color corrected bump map in Node Editor?

Artistic Support Materials and Textures
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Hello, I have manipulated an texture using a Color Ramp. I am using this manipulated texture as a Displacement map but would like to see how the map looks after using a Color Ramp.

I can view it in the 3D view in Rendered mode, but is there a way to see it in the UV/Image Editor? I know I could use the Composite section of the Node Editor, but I’m wondering if I can view Material nodes in the UV/Image Editor?

Thanks in advance, I know it’s a noob question and hard to verbalize.

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As far as i know, i don’t think you can. I could be wrong though, i’m not a specialist at textures in Blender.

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Not in an interactive enviroment… baking the output of the color ramp would let you see the it in the UV Editor… but it’s probably faster to see it in a rendered viewport (using an emission shader, or using the node preview from the node wrangler addon to speed up the preview).
You can even use just a plane and the top view… it may look a bit more as the UV Editor. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the quick responses guys!