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June 10, 2019
Question

Smashed glass effect through a Rainbow

  • June 10, 2019
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I wanted to create an effect where someone has blasted through the rainbow from the bottom and broken it in half like shattered glass. Please help.

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    Myra Ferguson
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2019

    If you want to try After Effects, it has an effect called Shatter. Import your image, add the Shatter effect, set the shape to Glass, adjust settings as desired, and use Composition > Save Frame As > Photoshop Layers...

    June 10, 2019

    So the character below the rainbow will be punching up, and I want the rainbow to look as though it has been broken in half then with shards of glass flying out the top

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2019

    Thank you.

    In that case I think you may want to use Paths, Selections and »Cut to New Layer« to create a huge number of fragment Layers of the rainbow Layer and manually reposition them.

    andreamaestri
    Participating Frequently
    June 10, 2019

    Hi do you have any references for the effect you want to achieve? It's not really clear

    June 10, 2019

    please see my below screenshot. many thanks

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2019

    What screenshot?

    Please post on the Forum directly and don’t attach images to email-replies.

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2019

    The Displace Filter provides one option, though far from a perfect one. 

    June 10, 2019

    thank you for your reply but this is not really the effect i am after.

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2019

    Can you clarify what effect you are after?