Hey Cafe Crew, it is Colin Smith here and today, I am going to show you how to create
a dispersion spatter effect.
Now, this kind of effect has become very popular.
You are kind of seeing it everywhere and there’s a lot of different things we can do.
Splatter we can do, dispersion we can do disintegration by using different types of brushes.
And the effect is actually really easy.
I am going to show you how to do it right now.
So what I have got is I have got an image here which I grabbed from Adobe Stock which
is a great source for images.
You can actually download the watermarked versions and experiment with them for free
and if you choose, you can also license them.
And if you want to get 10 free images from Adobe Stock, check out the link underneath.
Alright, let’s get started.
So, the first thing I am going to do is I am going to make two copies of this particular
image.
So let me just zoom it out a little bit so that we can fit it on the screen and I am
going to hit Ctrl + J and Ctrl + J again.
So that’s twice.
Now, if you are on Mac, that would be Command + J. and let’s just call this one background,
actually let’s call this one outside.
And we are going to call this one inside.
And you will see why.
Okay, so we are going to start with the outside one.
The first thing we are going to do is grab our lasso and just make a selection around
our person.
Doesn’t have to be precise.
That’s good enough, let me just fill that one a little bit so that it’s not so weird
and now, okay, there we go.
And now we want to fill with Content Aware.
So we are going to choose Shift + Delete and that’s Shift + Backspace on Windows.
Choose Content Aware, click okay.
Ctrl + D, alright great.
So the next thing we want to do is the inside.
So what we are going to do is actually I’d add some color here.
So I am going to choose filter right now and under filter, I am going to choose Liquefy.
And what we are going to do is we are going to drag this out to give it some color.
So why don’t I increase the size a little bit.
We have got a pretty high pressure there and we can start with this forward tool.
So what we are going to do is just grab and we just drag this out to create pixels.
See what we are doing here?
That’s all we are doing, just adding some color.
And depending on how far you want to disperse, you can pull this a long way or you could
just do it a short distance, it is entirely up to you.
So I am just going to start here, just kind of pulling this out.
That noise you can hear, I am using that’s my pen on my tablet, that’s what you can
hear right now.
Great, so I want to do this leg here but I don’t want to mess up the fun part of that.
So I am going to grab the freeze or the freeze tool actually and just paint here with this,
a freeze mask.
And that’s just going to protect that front part.
Grab my forward worp tool again and then just drag back.
And that’s giving us the effect.
That’s great and that’s what we want.
Now, we are going to click ok.
So okay now we have got the inside and outside.
What we want to do is we want to hide these just by masking them.
So I am just going to hold down the Alt key, that’s Option on Mac and Alt on windows
and then click on the Mask.
The same thing for this one.
Alt Option and click on the layer mask.
Alright, so here is our image now.
And we are getting ready to apply our dispersion splatter.
Now, what we need to is use a brush and I know some tutorials, just kind of stuff, says
grab a brush, I am going to show you how to get a brush right now.
In fact, if you are an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, you have access to a bunch of
different brushes and assets.
So click on the Creative Cloud under assets, go here and we can try splatter brush.
And you want to make sure we are in the market there and you can see, there we go.
There’s a whole bunch of free brushes that you can grab.
Now, the way to add them is that we go through our Creative Cloud Library.
So the way to do that, as we click on here and we can add to library.
Now I have created a library called Brush.
You can click on create library if you don’t have one.
Just like that and type in ‘Brush’.
I am not going to do it again because I have one but I am just going to select brush right
there and that’s all I need to do.
And that’s going to download to my brush just by clicking on it.
There.
See that?
You can see it syncing, you can do the same thing here.
And that’s syncing and you can actually go through and just download your brushes.
Then when you are ready, we could actually see what we have got here if you want.
Open up our library panel.
And you can see under the brushes, there is our brushes.
Alright, so why don’t we select that brush right there.
We are just going to double click on it.
And you will notice that the brush will appear here right there with the brush tool selected,
that’s our brush.
Okay, we want to modify this a little bit.
So let’s go into our brushes panel here under just go into Window brush, if it is
not showing and we want to do some adjustments to this brush.
First thing we want to do is choose shape dynamics.
We are going to turn our size jitter up, quite a bit.
And also set our control or pen pressure because I am going to be using a WaCom Pressure Sensitive
Pen.
And you will see that there, pen pressure.
And then other things we might want to do is do a little bit of angel jitter, just give
it a little bit of randomness.
And what’s really going to happen here is going to be under the scattering.
So let’s get some scattering going and we are going to give it a little bit more account
and account jitter.
So that’s going to give it some nice randomness and I am going to set this to pen pressure.
Excellent.
Alright, now we just want to make the brush smaller.
So I am going to grab the left bracket key and just drop this down a little bit.
About there’s looking good.
Alright, let’s pop our layers panel open and just tear it off.
I am just going to hide everything else and we will put or layers panel here, just so
you can see what’s going on.
So now it is time to add our effect.
We are going to click where it says ‘Outside’ and we are going to go and make sure, our
brush is selected with white as the foreground, opacity 100 and let’s play around for some
[Inaudible 06:57] little smaller and I am just going to start going around those edges
there.
And what it is doing is it is applying the texture from the outside in there.
Okay, the next thing I am going to do is I am going to make the brush even smaller and
just kind of have a smaller brush right up on those edges, there.
And that’s just by tapping that bracket key.
Right on the edges we want a smaller brush.
Alright, great, now we have kind of taken away from the back there but we want to have
those little particles projecting out into the back.
So we are now going to click on the layer mask on the inside one and I am going to make
the brush just a little bit bigger, right now, there we go and we are just going to
go around those edges and add a little bit of dispersion there.
See how it’s starting to work now.
And now I am going to imagine the smaller particles are probably going to travel a little
bit further.
So now I am going to do a smaller brush here, let me grab a really small brush, notice it
is going to put some really tiny ones, in fact, we are going to kind of do it in little
shapes here, see that, little streams coming out and that kind of adds to the interesting,
little waves coming out, see that?
And there we have it guys.
It is that simple to do that kind of dispersion splatter.
Now, feel free to experiment with different types of brushes and you are going to get
different results and also try different images.
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