Today I will teach you interesting effect look through broken glass. For this photoshop lesson We will need an image for the background (preferably a city) and a brush with an image of broken glass.
The lesson is simple, at the end we will get the following broken glass effect:
1. First you need to find the sources. As I said, we need an image of the city and a brush of broken glass. I took this city:
2. Open a photo of the city and apply Image -> Adjustment -> Vibrance with the following settings:
And use it to draw a crack, note that the main color should be black:
If you want, you can create your own brush, or use a broken glass texture instead of a brush. Read about how to create brushes in the lesson ““. I will dwell on this point briefly.
Open the image with the broken glass (if it is not black and white, make it so using the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+U). Please note that the glass must be white, and the cracks are black. If the image lacks contrast, add it using Image -> Adjustment -> Brightness/Contrast. Now create the brush itself. Go to Edit -> Define Brush Preset. That's it, the brush is created, you can close the document with cracks on the glass and proceed to creating a view of the city through the broken glass.
4. Let's blur the city a little, for this you need to copy the layer with the city (Ctrl + J), then go to Filter (Filter) -> Blur (Blur) -> Gaussian blur (Gaussian) with a radius value of 4px:
5. Create a mask for the copied layer (read more about masks in the photoshop lesson " "), to which we just applied blur, take a soft black brush, and hide the areas that should not be blurred:
Thus, we got the effect of looking through broken glass. Where there is no glass, the image is clear, and where it remains, it is blurry. This adds even more realism. Now we just have to work with the flowers.
Colored view through broken glass
6. Create a new gradient adjustment layer:
Choose any gradient to suit your taste:
Set the blending mode to Overlay, opacity 50%. As a result, we get this look through the broken glass:
You can use a layer mask to desaturate the image that is visible through the hole in the glass:
In my opinion, it turned out more interesting this way. Finally, you can apply a Color Balance adjustment layer and give the picture the shade you like.
My “View Through Broken Glass” looks like this:
That's it for the photoshop lesson on creating looking through broken glass finished. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have questions or want to discuss this tutorial, you can do so in the comments or on the forum. I wish you success and say goodbye until we meet again 😉
Broken glass in a design project is a great way to add drama and make the story more interesting. The very image of broken glass symbolizes provocation, challenge and creates a mood of energy and conflict. Today you will learn how to create a brush for Adobe Photoshop in the form of broken glass. You will go all the way from breaking glass, to photography and of course creating the brush itself.
1. Practical part of the effect
You may be wondering, “What's so hard about this? All you have to do is break the glass and take a picture of it!” But in reality there are much more difficulties. First of all, there is a security problem. Broken glass shards can be a real problem. You can't break glass in a smooth, controlled manner. This has to be done sharply and forcefully. If you do not take the necessary measures, the fragments will scatter in different directions, and this is very dangerous.
But security is not the only problem. When it comes to the filming process, you have to deal with issues with backgrounds and reflections. Each of these components can significantly complicate the process of subsequent photo processing. And considering the number of fragments, it will take you a lot of time.
Luckily, in this tutorial you will find a solution to all of these problems!
Step 1
The materials and tools you will need are quite simple and inexpensive:
- Several sheets of glass. This example uses glass from photo frames purchased at a sale.
- A sheet of fairly strong cardboard.
- Aerosol glue.
- Clear plastic bags that contain glass.
- Hammer!
Step 2
As practice has shown, it is best to perform the following actions outside on a cloudy day. A thick layer of clouds provides soft, diffused light and helps avoid glare.
We need glue to hold the fragments together and prevent them from scattering around the area. Let's start by spraying glue onto the cardboard. Spray well - we don't want droplets that will then be visible on the glass. You don't want the glass to stick tightly; the glue should just hold the pieces together.
Step 3
Let the glue on the cardboard dry a little, then carefully press the glass onto the cardboard. Try not to leave fingerprints on the glass.
Step 4
If necessary, cut the cardboard so that the glass and cardboard fit into the bag. Place the cardboard with glass inside the bag.
Step 5
Break the glass with a quick and precise strike of the hammer into the center of the glass. The glue will hold the fragments together and the bag will prevent them from scattering.
Step 6
Carefully pull the cardboard with glass out of the bag so that the shards remain in place. Place the cardboard with glass on a straight surface and start taking photos. Shoot at a slight angle and make sure you are not reflected in the glass.
Step 7
Very carefully take out several pieces and photograph them separately, also taking care that there are no reflections.
Step 8
Repeat the entire process as many times as necessary or until you run out of glass pieces.
2. Photo processing
Now let's move to the digital environment. We need to prepare photos for the brushes.
Step 1
Open one of the photos of broken glass and use the tool Crop crop the image close to the edges of the glass.
Step 2
Photoshop brushes ignore color information, so it would be nice for us to see a black and white image as well. To do this, add Adjustment LayerBlack & White/Black and white and find the settings at which you will achieve the best contrast. In our example this is High Contrast Red Filter/High-contrast red filter.
Step 3
Add an adjustment layer Curves/Curves. Set up the curves similar to the screenshot below. Your task is to make the spaces between the cracks an even white color, and to make the cracks themselves as dark as possible without distorting the image.
Step 4
Add New Layer/New layer on top of all other layers and take the tool Brush (B). Choose white as the first color and paint all around the cracks, while carefully reducing the edges to invisible, as in the picture below.
Step 5
From the menu, select Edit > Define Brush Preset/Edit > Define Brush and give your brush a name. Process the remaining photos in the same way and create brushes from them.
3. Using brushes
While making your own brushes is fun and rewarding, not everyone has the time to spend breaking glass to create brushes. So you can download a ready-made set.
Step 1
Download the ShatteredGlassBrushes.abr file. Now from the menu select Edit > Presets > Preset Manager/Edit>Sets>Manage Sets. In the department Brushes/Brushes use the button Load/Download, to find the file you just downloaded.
This will add 12 new brushes from the tutorial to the palette. Brush Presets/Brush Sets.
Give free rein to your imagination and use them as you wish!
Translation – Duty room
Photoshop filter Glass often goes unnoticed, but when creative approach, it is capable of creating powerful and impressive visual effects. Filter Glass works by distorting images using information greyscale,at the same time it encounters 3D application maps.
In this tutorial, Mark Mayers will show you how to create realistic effect broken glass using displacement maps. You'll learn how to prepare a suitable image for displacement and learn how Alpha channels work in conjunction with a filter Glass to distort and identify hidden lighting and sharp details.
Next, you'll learn how to add specular lighting and use brushes to successfully achieve the effect. Having once mastered the filter Glass, nothing will stop you from experimenting with the use displacementmaps(displacement maps) to textures such as wood or stone, which will open you up to a wealth of texturing properties and add to your creative arsenal.
Some of the files used in this tutorial can be downloaded for a small fee from iStockphoto, while others are available for free at stock.xchng.
Step 1. Create a new A4 document with portrait orientation in RGB with a resolution of 300 dpi, select black as the background color. Buy the image or use your own image similar to this one.
Open the image and place it in our working file as a new layer called "Face". Now resize it, center it and place it in a group called “Face”. Next, draw a closed path around the tongue, create a simple selection with a 2 px blur, then use the tool Burn tool(Dimmer) to darken.
Step 2. Duplicate the “Face” layer, setting blending mode ( mixing mode) on Soft Light(Soft light) and opacity(transparency) on 21% . Name it ‘Face soft light’ soft light), then add a mask to the folder. Use big brush with soft edges on the mask to gently blend the hard edges of the face into the background.
Step 3. Open the smoke image (you can download the one used in this tutorial), copy and paste it rectangular selection above the folder. Resize and place the image at the bottom of the canvas, then duplicate it, flip it horizontally, and move it to the top of the canvas. Merge the two layers and name the resulting ‘Mist’ and reduce transparency before 37% .
Step 4. Add a 'Mist' layer to the folder named 'ATMOSPHERE'. With the 'Mist' layer active, hold Alt click on Create New Fill (Create a new fill layer) or by icon Adjustment Layer(Adjustment Layer) at the bottom of the Layers panel, and select from the drop-down menu Hue/ Saturation(Hue/Saturation), check the box next to UsePreviousLayertoCreateClippingMask(Use previous layer as clipping mask), click OK and install Saturation(Saturation) to - 83 And Lightness(Brightness) on -30 .
Step 5. Now we need to blend the haze into the face: add a mask to the folder and use the same technique as in step two to make a smooth transition from the haze to the face. If you go back to the final image, you'll see that the haze is subtle, so feel free to set the layer's opacity to your liking.
Step 6. Add AdjustmentLayer(Adjustment Layer) ColorBalance(Color Balance) above all layers.
To get started, select Shadows(Shadows) and set Red(Red) on -21
And Blue(Blue) on 12
.
Then select Midtones(Midtones) and set Red(Red) on -68
And Blue(Blue) on 16.
Finally, select Highlights(Light) and install Red(Red) on -25
, Green(Green) on 17
And Blue(Blue) on 19
.
Step 7 The image is starting to take shape, but it's a little oversaturated for my liking. Let's tweak this by adding adjustment layer(adjustment layer) Black & White(Black and White) above all layers by selecting filter High Contrast Blue(High Blue Contrast) in the suggested menu. You can reduce the effect by reducing opacity 23% .
Step 8 Download free stock photos of broken glass. Open the photo and place it in our document as a new layer above the other layers, called 'Glass'. Expand it to 90 degrees counterclockwise, then reduce opacity(transparency)to 40% , this will help us change the size and position of this layer relative to the face, as shown in the figure. Then draw a series of closed outlines around any unwanted areas of the glass, turn the outlines into selections and fill them with black.
Step 9 Select the 'Glass' layer, select (Ctrl + A) everything and copy (Ctrl + C), then turn on the panel Channels(Channels) and click on the icon Create New Channel(Create a new channel). Paste your selection into a new channel and name it ‘Glass sharp’, then use a small white brush with a hard edge to erase any black holes and excess. Use the tool Burn tool(Dimmer) to highlight broken lines. Finally, add adjustmentlayer(adjustment layer) Levels(Levels) by setting the midpoint to 0.55 and white on 126.
Step 10 Duplicate a channel by dragging its icon to the icon Create New Channel(Create a new channel), add a Gaussian blur to it with a value of 2 px (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur(Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) and name it ‘Glass blur’.
Now select the duplicate channel (right-click in the channel panel, select from the context menu Duplicate Channel(Copy channel)) ,
then, in the window that appears, selectNew(New) under Document Destination(Purpose of document). The channel will now open as a new file; we will use this file as displacement map(displacement maps) in step 12, so save it in a visible place like Face_glassified.psd(facial glazing).
Step 11 Make the 'Glass' layer visible and add a blank layer underneath it. Make sure your new layer is active, then go to the menu Image > Apply Image(Image > External Channel), in the next dialog box, make sure that under Layer(Layer) installed Merged(Merge), and that the mode is selected Normal under Blending(Mixing). You now have a blended layer of all the visible layers, which you can call 'Face glass'.
Step 12 With the new layer active, go to the menu Filter > Distort > Glass(Filter > Offset > Glass). In the next window, install Distortion(Offset) by 20 And Smoothness(Smoothing) on 5, now click on the arrow (next to Texture(Texture)) to load the file you named Face_glassified.psd. Finally, make sure that Scaling(Zoom) is set to 100% , enable the option Invert(Invert) and press OK.
Step 13 Make the 'Glass' layer visible, then set it to blending mode(mix mode) to Overlay(Overlap) and opacity(transparency) on 68% . Now create a selection from the ‘Glass sharp’ channel, activate the ‘Glass’ layer and go to the menu Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal Selection(Layer > Layer Mask > Show Selection) .
Then add LayerStyle(Layer Style) DropShadow(Shadow) and set the following values:
blendingmode(mixing mode) - Normal(ordinary) ;
swatch(sample) -
black(black) ;
opacity(transparency) - 92%
;
angle(corner) - 155
;
distance(offset) - 24
;
spread(span) - 0;
size(size) - 8;
contour(circuit) -
Cone(cone) ;
antialiased(smoothing) -
on(included).
On the menu InnerShadow(Inner Shadow) enter the following settings:
blendingmode(mix mode) -
HardLight(Hard light);
swatch(sample) - # a8
c9
d0
;
opacity(transparency)- 100
;
angle(corner) - 155
;
distance(bias )
- 3
;
choke(constriction) -
0
;
size(size) - 8
;
contour(circuit) -
Linear(linear);
Anti-
aliased(smoothing) -
on(included).
Step 14 Load the brushes Glass brushes, then add a new layer above the 'Glass' layer and name it 'Small fragments'.
Set the Foreground color to white. Use your brushes sparingly, stamping around major cracks.
Then select a tool Magic Wand tool(Magic wand), check the box next to it in its settings Contiguous(Adjacent Pixels) and generate partial white highlight areas from the ‘Glass sharp’ channel. Add a new layer, then use a soft white brush to paint over the brightest areas of the glass - note Special attention to the light source. Finally, install blending mode(blending mode) for layer on Overlay(Overlap), reduce transparency before 66% and name it ‘Glass highlights’.
Step 15 Add a new layer on top of the others and use brush with soft edges to add shadow at the top and bottom. Then set the layer to Multiply(Multiplication) and opacity(transparency)on 45% . Now add adjustment layer(adjustment layer) Black & White(Black and White) by selecting from the drop-down menu MaximumWhite(Maximum white), then reduce opacity(transparency) of the adjustment layer to 16% .
Step 16 Place the 'Glass' layer in the mask folder and erase the bottom part a little. Create a couple of layers with mode Multiply(Multiplication) and Color(Color) to color the teeth yellow and the eyes red. Then create 'Highlight' layers, then add them and the 'Small fragments' layer to the 'HIGHLIGHTS' folder. Finally, create a suitable caption.
In this tutorial I will explain how to make a realistic broken glass effect using a Photoshop brush.In this tutorial I will explain how to make a realistic broken glass effect using a Photoshop brush.
Final image:
Additional materials:
Step 1
The method behind this tutorial is quite easy and quick to complete. All we need is a background image and a broken glass brush. As a background image, I took a panoramic photo of the city and opened it in Photoshop.
Step 2
Let's reduce the saturation of the photo and go to the menu Image > Adjustments > Vibration and set the settings:
Vibration: +15
Saturation: -70
Step 3
For this scene, let's write something in a sans serif font. I used .
Font color #56767d
Step 4
To combine the text with the background, take an eraser similar in appearance to mine. First, you need to rasterize the text layer (right-click on the text layer > Rasterize Text). Use the eraser especially on the bottom of the text, along the horizon.
The transparency of the text layer is too high in my opinion, so let's reduce it to 40% . This is what happens at this stage.
Step 5
To give the photo a natural look, add a highlight. Create a new layer and fill it with black. Then go to Filter > Render > Highlight. The settings are shown below.
Set the blending mode to Screen to eliminate black areas.
Step 6
Now we can work on the broken glass effect. Take the black one. Create a layer and click once on the center of the photo. You could get this same effect using a photo of broken glass, but it's easier with a brush.
Step 7
In order to make the effect realistic, we need to blur the area that the broken glass covers. Select all layers below the broken glass layer and click Alt + Ctrl + E to merge them into a new layer. Then we apply Gaussian blur(Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) with a radius of about 3 px,
Step 8
Create a layer mask for the blurred layer.
Now use a black round brush to clear some areas of the blurry background.
Step 9
In the end, the blur remained only on the glass, in the non-glass area there was only a clear background. This way we got a realistic effect of broken glass.
Step 10
To finish the job, let's just play with two adjustment layers. Let's start by changing the colors using Gradient maps(Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map). Make a gradient transition from purple ( #6f156c) to green ( #00601b) to orange ( #fd7c00). Set the blending mode to Screen, with opacity 70%.
Step 11
To make the vintage style even more pronounced, let's play a little with the adjustment layer. Color balance(Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance). I simply changed the undertones until I was happy with the result.
End
Here is my final result. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial on how to create a broken glass effect.
