Create a Realistic Break-Apart Effect In this tutorial, I will show you an interesting technique I use to produce realistic break-apart/disintegration effect in Photoshop by using debris brushes, with a watercolour background attached. There are many tutorials on the web showing techniques about break-aparts but, it never hurts to learn more It will be a bit boring if the whole tut is just to break something apart, so I also combined a bit of photo retouch techniques along side and hopefully they can be useful to you as well. Together we will be using layer blending options, masking, the pen tool, adjustment layers and of course, brushsets. Have a try! Here is a preview of the final effect: Alternative version:
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Create a Realistic Break-Apart Effect
In this tutorial, I will show you an interesting technique I use to produce realistic
break-apart/disintegration effect in Photoshop by using debris brushes, with a
watercolour background attached. There are many tutorials on the web showing
techniques about break-aparts but, it never hurts to learn more
It will be a bit boring if the whole tut is just to break something apart, so I also
combined a bit of photo retouch techniques along side and hopefully they can be
useful to you as well. Together we will be using layer blending options, masking,
the pen tool, adjustment layers and of course, brushsets. Have a try!
Here is a preview of the final effect:
Alternative version:
OK let’s get started!
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:
Female stock
Debris Brush
Watercolor Brush
Step 1
Create a new document sized 3100px * 3600px with White background. Open
the “Female Stock” image in Photoshop, use Pen Tool (or whatever selection
method you prefer) to make a working path around the model: