Broken Glass Tutorial
Writing by admin on Sunday, 28 of January , 2007 at 5:03 am
Learn how to give your photos a broken glass effect.
Step 1) Open a new document, fill it with white.
Step 2) Now, take the ‘Magnetic Lasso Tool’ and make something that looks like this.
Step 3) Press CTRL + T to enter Free Transform mode and rotate the layer to your liking.
Step 4) Create a new layer and use the ‘Magnetic Lasso Tool’ to make a new shape. Then fill it with black and rotate it around a bit. Do this a few more times to get something that looks like this:
Step 5) Now find a picture that you would like to reflect off the broken glass.
Step 6) Duplicate that layer so there are as many image layers (all with the same image in them) as there are shape piece layers (arrange them so the image layers are above the shape pieces, kind of like this, just for organization, see below)
Step 7) Now click on the image layer above the first shape and CTRL + Left (Mouse Button). Click the shape layer below it and then press the Add Layer Mask button (at the bottom of the Layers Palette).
Do this for each shape you made.
Step 8.) Hide each shape layer.
Give a Drop Shadow Layer style to each image layer.
Image
Step 9) You can add a background if you like.
and you’re done!
Final Image
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Comment by Aliesha S
Made Thursday, 1 of February , 2007 at 1:54 am
“Step 7) Now click on the image layer above the first shape and CTRL + Left (Mouse Button). Click the shape layer below it and then press the Add Layer Mask button (at the bottom of the Layers Palette).”
When adding the layer masks to each picture image, it hides all of the pictures and just shows the black shapes. I did it all like you showed in the example of all the Layers except it just doesn’t look like what u have when applying the shadow.. I’m very confused.. can you please help me?
Comment by jtam-n
Made Thursday, 1 of February , 2007 at 2:05 am
The background of the shape images are suppose to be black and the image is suppose to white, as you see in step 7, is yours the same as that? When you apply it, you should be get a white broken glass, did you get that?
Comment by Aliesha
Made Thursday, 1 of February , 2007 at 2:10 am
When you say that the shape images are supposed to be black and the image is supposed to be white - my shapes are black but I am not getting the white image. And when I tried applying the Layer Masks the mask on the right hand side in the layers is completely black and has no white shapes to them.
Comment by jtam-n
Made Thursday, 1 of February , 2007 at 2:12 am
The shapes should be white i meant, sorry, did you try it wiht the colours vice versa?
Comment by Aliesha
Made Thursday, 1 of February , 2007 at 2:23 am
No. I still don’t understand how you done it. Did you happen to have an instant messenger where I could try and show you?
Comment by Aliesha
Made Thursday, 1 of February , 2007 at 2:52 am
Its ok i think i found out how to do it now.. i just had to experiment around a bit with the layers.. thanks for you help.
Comment by Serinay
Made Wednesday, 7 of February , 2007 at 12:31 am
How did you create Shape 1? It looks like their colors were inverted shapes from the other Shapes.
I can create all the layers and make the shapes, but the very bottom one you did not say how to create that one.
Comment by geebs
Made Tuesday, 20 of February , 2007 at 6:43 pm
okay i get to step 5…and then i don’t know what to do…how do i add the pic????
Comment by André Domarques
Made Thursday, 15 of March , 2007 at 11:32 pm
When we work constantily with digital arts and make so much abstracts arts, we forgot some realy impresive simple efects like this… Keep going with you good work!
Comment by danny
Made Monday, 26 of March , 2007 at 8:49 pm
ok so i am having trouble maybe i am not pressing the right button or somthing but when i go to do step seven it doesnt turn out right