Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to simulate a video
glitch effect and quickly apply it to other photos. This is an update of a tutorial I
did quite awhile ago on an earlier version of Photoshop. Before we begin, you can get
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Open an image you'd like to use for this project. I downloaded this one from Shutterstock. Go
to Image and Image Size. To get similar results that I'll be getting from the filters and
effects, make its resolution 150 pixels per inch. To fit it back onto your canvas, press
Ctrl + 0 on Windows or Cmd + 0 on a Mac. Next, we'll remove the background by making a selection
around your subject. For this example, I'll use the Quick Selection Tool. If you're using
this tool as well, make its size 10 pixels. Drag your tool inside your subject until all
of it is selected. To remove areas, press and hold Alt or Option as you drag over those
areas. Click the Refine Edge button or go to Select and Refine Edge. Check Smart Radius
and drag the Radius to the right approximately this much. Check "Decontaminate Colors" and
drag the amount to approximately 80%. Output it as a "New Layer" and click OK. Shift-click
on the bottom layer to make it active as well and click the icon at the upper, right of
the Layers panel. Click "Convert to Smart Object". Smart Objects allow us to modify
images non-destructively, as well as edit all the effects that we'll be adding to them
at any time. Plus, we can replace our image with another image and still retain all the
effects. Keep in mind, since every photo has its own characteristics, the settings for
the effects that I’ll be using in my image may have a different result on yours, so feel
free to play with the setting amounts. Open the fly-out list again and this time, click
"Duplicate Layer". Click "New" and name it "Displacement". Then, click OK or press Enter
or Return. This duplicate layer will be our displacement map, which we'll use to wrap
textures around the contours of your subject. Displacement maps work best when they're black
and white and slightly blurred. To blur it, go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Blur
it 3 to 5 pixels and click OK. To make it black and white, click the Adjustment Layer
icon and click "Black White". Go to File and "Save As". Save it to your Desktop as a PSD
file. Then, click Save. If you see this window, click OK. We can now close the Displacement
file, since we saved it to our desktop. Open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd
+ T. Click the chain-link between the Width and the Height. This links them together.
In either field, type in 300. Then, press Enter or Return, twice. To move your image,
press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag it to a new position. You can always reposition
later if you want. We want your background color black. If it isn't, click this icon
and then press "x' to invert them. Click the foreground color and in the Color Picker's
hexadecimal field, type in, "00D1F7". Then, click OK or press Enter or Return. Go to Filter
and Filter Gallery. If image is too large to see in the window and you want to see it
entirely, you can zoom out of the preview window. Open the "Artistic" folder and click
"Neon Glow". I'll make the Size 5 and the Brightness 15, however, feel free to experiment
with their amounts. Double-click the Glow Color. I'm using the default color, which
is: 0000FF, however, pick whatever color you'd like. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return
to accept the color and click OK to accept the Neon Glow. Go to Filter, Distort and Wave.
I'll make the number of Generators: 1, the Wavelength: 9 and 10, the Amplitude: 1 and
206 and the Scale: 100% and 1%. The Type is Sine and "Repeat Edge Pixels". Remember, you
an always edit these settings at any time because all our layers are Smart Objects,
so we're applying Smart Filters to them. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return. Scroll
to the top of the Layers panel and make the Displace layer visible and active. Change
its Blend Mode to Hard Light. Go to Filter, Distort and Wave. We'll use the same settings
that we used earlier for the background. Go back to Filter, Distort and Displace. Make
the Horizontal and Vertical Scales between 10 to 20, "Stretch to Fit" and "Repeat Edge
Pixels". Then, click OK or press Enter or Return. On your "Desktop", click the "Displacement"
file that you saved earlier and click "Open". To save space in the Layers panel, click the
small arrowhead icon to collapse the effects. To see them again, just click back on the
arrowhead. Make your "Hard Light" layer visible and active. Change the Blend Mode to "Hard
Light". Make the "102%" layer visible and active.Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail
of the Displace layer to make a selection of its shape. Click the Layer Mask icon to
make a layer mask of the selection next to the active layer. Invert the layer mask by
pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I. Click off the chain-link to unlink the layer and the layer mask. Now,
we can reposition and resize either of them independently of the other. Make the layer
active and open your Transform Tool. Click the chain-link icon and in either the Width
or the Height, type in 102. Then, to accept it, press Enter or Return, twice. Next, we'll
blend in the edges of our subject with the background. First, change its Blend Mode to
Hard Light. Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Invert". To restrict the invert
effect to just the one layer below it, we need to make it into a clipping mask. To do
this, press Ctrl + Alt + G on WIndows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac. Make the "Overlay"
layer visible and active. Change its Blend Mode to "Overlay". Go to Filter, Distort and
Wave. The number of Generators is: 1, the Wavelength is: 300 and 999...the Amplitude
is: 36 and 514...and the Scale is: 1% and 100%. The Type is: "Square" and "Repeat Edge
Pixels". Then, click OK. Drag the layer to a position you like. You can always reposition
it later if you want. Next, we'll add a layer of color distortion. Next, we'll blend in
the edges of our subject with the background. First, change its Blend Mode to Hard Light.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Invert". To restrict the invert effect to
just the one layer below it, we need to make it into a clipping mask. To do this, press
Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac. Make the "Overlay" layer visible
and active. Change its Blend Mode to "Overlay". Go to Filter, Distort and Wave. The number
of Generators is: 1, the Wavelength is: 300 and 999...the Amplitude is: 36 and 514...and
the Scale is: 1% and 100%. The Type is: "Square" and "Repeat Edge Pixels". Then, click OK.
Drag the layer to a position you like. You can always reposition it later if you want.
Next, we'll add a layer of color distortion. Let's collapse the Smart Filter to save space.
Scroll to the top and make the top layer visible and active. Change its Blend Mode to "Hard
Light" and go to Filter, Distort and Wave. Make the number of Generators: 171...the Wavelength:
9 and 10...the Amplitude: 1 and 206...and the Scale: 100% and 1%. The Type is: "Sine"
and "Repeat Edge Pixels". Then, click OK. Next, we'll make our subject's color blend
into our overall image. First, let's collapse the Smart Filter to save space. make the "Displace"
layer active and click the Adjustment layer icon. Click "Hue/Saturation". We'll make it
into a clipping mask, so it'll restrict itself to effect just the Displace layer below it.
As before, press Ctrl + Alt +G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac. Or, you can
click this clipping mask icon. Check "Colorize". Make the Hue: 189 and the Saturation: 0. Scroll
to the bottom of the Layers panel and make the "Vertical Bands" layer visible and active.
Change its Blend Mode to “Luminosity”. Go to Filter, Distort and Wave. Make the number
of Generators: 294...the Wavelength: 1 and 529...the Amplitude: 228 and 352...and the
Scale: 1% and 100%. The Type is Sine and "Repeat Edge Pixels". Go to Filter, Distort and Displace.
Displace it by 10 to 20 pixels. Click the "Displacement" file that you saved earlier
and click "Open". Now, your vertical bands layer is wrapping around the contours of your
subject. Next, we'll make the vertical bands blend into your subject, while retaining its
original characteristics over the background. First, collapse the Smart Filters. Go to the
layer mask and press and hold Alt or Option as you drag a copy of the layer mask onto
your "Vertical Bands" layer. Presently, the layer mask is hiding the vertical bands inside
your subject. Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to make a copy of the layer and its layer mask. Make
the layer mask copy active and invert it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I. Now, we can see
the vertical bands layer inside your subject again. In order for it to blend into your
subject, make the vertical bands copy active and change its Blend Mode to "Saturation".
If you want to replace your subject with different one, double-click on any Smart Object to open
its source image. Open a new subject as you did earlier, remove the background. Drag it
onto the source tab of the Smart Object and without releasing your computer mouse or pen,
drag it down onto your original image and release. To resize it, open your Transform
Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. Go to a corner and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow,
press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag it out or in. Drag it to position it
and press Enter or Return. Click off the eyeball icon next to the original subject to hide
it and close the tab of your new Smart Object. When you see this window, click "Yes" to save
the changes. Open back the tab of your Glitch document and you'll see that all the layers
except the layer masks have been replaced with your new subject. To replace the layer
masks, scroll to your "Displace" layer and Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on its thumbnail to
make a selection of its shape. Scroll down to see the layer masks and drag the top one
to the Trash. Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to
the active layer. Replace the other layer masks and fee free to experiment by inverting
them to get different results, as well as, experimenting with all the Blend Modes and
Wave filters. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!