Blending an Image in Photoshop or Illustrator

[fabion1220]

I would like to create an effect like the Grace Jones 'slave to the rhythm' album cover in Photoshop or Illustrator. Is it possible and if so I need some help?  Thank you

[Mylenium]

Not much to it. Just a bunch of strips. Easily done by e.g. using a rectangular marquee selection and copy&pasting the content to a new layer, then arranging those layers.

Mylenium

[fabion1220]

Thank you Mylenium. Much appreciated advice. 

[PECourtejoie]

Hi, yes, it might have been done without digital effects. In addition to the  Marquee (M) Ctrl+J/CMD+J, Move (V) suggestion by Lutz, one could also use content aware scale, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C /CMD+Opt+Shift+C or look in the edit menu, for some special non-proportional effects.

[fabion1220]

Thank you so much this was really helpful. It turned out to be me much easier than I thought it would be. 

[Bojan Živković]

Ths is job for Photoshop rather then Illustrator. 

[Trevor.Dennis]

I wonder if other answers are being too simplistic, because this is not an entirely easy effect. 

Other tools that would help is to use Free Transform on just the area you want to stretch. 

You might need to add Canvas to give you room to stretch into as well. 

In this case I seperated the head and torso to their own layers, and selected just the area I want to stretch.

Then apply Free transform to that selection.  This leaves the eyes unaffected as in the Grace Jones cover.

Note: You need to use recangular selections or you'll end up with gaps between the stretched and unstretched part of the layer.  If this proves problematic, temporaily rotate the layer to make your desired area square to the canvas.  Do the transform, and rotate it back. 

You might also use View > New Guide layout to place guides that will make it easy to make equally spaced selections for the moved segments.  In the Grace Jones example it looks like those segments overlap, so I have added a Gutter  to help with that overlap.  

Note you will need to have Snap turned on make selections snap to the guides.

I hope this might move you forward, but ask if you get stuck with anything.