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Hey what's up everybody and welcome back to gal! Today we are jumping into
Photoshop and I'm going to show you this really cool shatter effect it's actually
an action that you can install and load inside a Photoshop to create these
really cool shatter dispersion effects on your subjects so it works really
great and it looks super cool with action shots or if somebody is suspended
in the air or an object like a camera is suspended in the air and you can just
select areas of the object and have it shatter out and you can customize it and
not really cool filters to it now this action is available on Envato
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and set up the action in Photoshop and I'll show you how to use the effect
first open up your photo in Photoshop make sure that the photo is a background
layer and it's locked if it's not go to layer new background from layer next
let's import the brush file go to window brushes from the panel select the
hamburger menu and select import brushes this is where we will select the shutter
poly brushes ABR brush file and now it'll be loaded up and ready to use in
the action next we're going to import the pattern file go to window patterns
select the hamburger menu again and then import patterns this is where
you will select the shatter poly patterns Pat file and now the pattern is
loaded and lastly we're gonna go to window actions from the panel select the
hamburger menu and select load actions and here you will select the shatter
poly dat end file there's also three other things you must have enabled in
order for the action to work go to the layers panel and select panel options
make sure that ad copy - copied layers and groups option is checked second you
need to make sure you're in an RGB workspace go to image mode and make sure
it's in an RGB color in 8-bits channel mode you also need to be using the
English version of Photoshop you can change the language to English by
following this tutorial which I'll put up in a card in the upper right of this
video alright so the setup is done now let's get on to the fun part
first up we need to select our entire subject that we want to apply the effect
to to do this I'm going to use the object selection tool this is a fairly
new tool so if you do not have this available in the version of Photoshop
you're using you can also use the quick selection tool so with the object
selection tool just trace around the object roughly and then once you get to
the end just close it off and then it will select the object inside of your
selection and you might have to zoom in and make some corrections and that's
okay this is where I use the quick selection tool to correct any edges to
add more into the selection just click to add it into the selection and then to
remove part of a selection press the option key and once it's set pressed
command J on a Mac or ctrl J on a PC to make this selection its own layer and
now you'll have a new layer just with that subject selection next we need to
fill in the selection with a solid color to make the action work first you need
to load up the selection again press command on a Mac or kin
roll on a PC and select the thumbnail of the new layer this will load up the
selection and now right-click on the selection and select fill and here from
contents select color and it can be any color that you want I'm going to choose
red just make sure that the blend mode is also normal in the opacity as at a
hundred percent and now our subject is fully in red and then just go back to
the selection tool here and just select to get rid of the selection around our
subject and next we need to rename the layer just select the name by clicking
on it and type in brush in all lowercase this must be an all lowercase and
spelled exactly this way as the action we are about to run requires that this
layer is named brush if it's not named brush then it will not work so then from
the action panel we're going to open up the shatter poly action and select it
and then press play this will create some more layers and a layer mask and
then you'll get a new pop-up window that says that we need to paint over the
areas of the image that we want to shatter so we need to stop the action
and brush over the parts we want to shatter so this will automatically bring
up the brush tool and here I'm going to zoom in by hitting command + the plus
key on my keyboard and if you're on a PC it's control and the plus key and then
to adjust the brush size you can hit the right bracket to make it bigger or the
left bracket to make it smaller now because this is a layer mask as we brush
you can see that it only brushes on the area of our subject if you try to paint
outside of it it's not going to happen so you don't have to worry about making
any mistakes as you can just paint on top of your subject now the key here is
to be very subtle you don't want to brush all over because you don't want to
shatter the entire subject you just want to go around the outlines and make it
very subtle so once you've painted all the edges that you want to shatter just
hit play again in the action will continue and you'll see that
it will start to create these cool mask and the shatter effects take place and
this is the final result and if you love it that's it you can go to save and
export and call it a day but you can also add in some customization you'll
see that from the layer panel there's now a shatter poly folder and from
within it you can customize different things starting at the top you can
adjust the overall brightness by moving the triangle here and then you can also
select vibrancy and use the slider to add more vibrancy to the image and you
can adjust the contrast by choosing from different gradient maps and all of this
is optional but it's here if you want to customize now my favorite part are the
color looks that come pre-loaded in this action so you can turn on the visibility
of the different color looks until you find one that you like there's 20 of
them so plenty to explore but of course you don't have to use a color look it's
just here and it's optional next are the parts so this controls the brightness
saturation and contrast of the particles if you select the middle triangle and
move it to the right the particles become more dark if you move it to the
left they become more light next you can select saturation and move the slider to
add more saturation to the color of the particles from contrast you can also
select different basic gradients for subtle results but not much will change
using these basic gradients so I just leave it be
next is the blurred parts you can choose to turn on or off different parts for
example if you turn off one you'll see that some of the particles disappear
from the image also with these parts you can scale it up and reposition it if you
want to add your own different particle looks you can also turn on the other
layers to add more blurred particles next is the crack shadow turn this on
and we'll add some slight shadow to the different crack areas next is the
subject if you turn on the original subject you'll see that it brings in
more of the original part of the subject itself so it looks just cracked rather
than having completely shattered and lastly if you
don't want the original background you can turn on the single colored
background if you prefer a color backdrop you can choose a color by just
double-clicking on this little square here I personally want to keep the
original background so I'm going to keep that off and then you can run through
the exact same process to as many different photos as you want so that's
all there is to using this shatter poly action it's super cool and if you have
any questions about how to use it or having trouble using your photo just
leave a comment below and you can reach out to the author of this action unique
design he left his contact information in the
readme file that comes with the action download when you download it from in
Envato elements. And thanks to elements for giving you guys 70% off your a month of their unlimited
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