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December 4, 2018
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Shredded pictures

  • December 4, 2018
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Hi.

I´m interrested to learn how I can get my pictures to look like they've been through a shredding machine and also how to make them look as if they've been torn apart.....

Thanx

//Anders

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    Bojan Živković11378569
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    December 5, 2018

    Here is free PSD file with Banksy effect which you can explore to learn how the deed is done. Banksy link Rufus.

    Trevor.Dennis
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    December 5, 2018

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bojan+%C5%BDivkovi%C4%87  wrote

    Here is free PSD file with Banksy effect which you can explore to learn how the deed is done. Banksy link Rufus.

    Hah!  That's a lot of fun.

    Community Expert
    December 4, 2018

    Trevor has given a solution. Here are some other links that may be useful tutorials in related areas.

    Worn Torn Photo Edges Effect In Photoshop

    Torn Paper Effect | Photoshop Tutorial - YouTube

    D Fosse
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    December 4, 2018

    Yeah, sorry for wandering a bit off topic there - but it was too good to pass up

    Trevor.Dennis
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    December 4, 2018

    If you are after an easy one click solution, then Filter Forge has a couple of options

    This is Shredder by Quasimodo  (the image was too obvious a choice as a test subject )

    And this is Top Secret by ThreeDee

    Note you are obviously looking at preview screens above.  The final render is pretty decent quality (click to expand).

    Filter Forge is a strange kind of a plugin.  It has a huge number of effects and it becomes a sort of 'can't find wood for the trees' thing, but without knowing they existed, I thought I had a good chance of finding a shredder effect because that's the sort of thing it is good for.  Well worth having if you an illustrator.

    Participant
    December 4, 2018

    Thanxs a lot.....will check it out

    davescm
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    December 5, 2018

    Hi

    If you want to try something without any plug ins you could make a tooth shaped vector mask. Just make a rectangle path with path operations set to "subtract front path" and then transform a copy (Ctrl+Alt+T) then repeat (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+T). Add it to the image layer as a vector mask. Copy the layer and shift the mask a couple of times. Add a touch of shadow and emboss then transform and warp each layer

    Dave