Dispersion effect

[Jean-Luc]

Someone, on the French user web board, asked if PaintShop Pro has the possibility to do a similar effect seen in Photoshop:
http://www.paintshoppro.fr/viewtopic.ph ... =442#p5010
Here another example:

This special tool ("dispersion") doesn't exist in PSP and I tried to do something with layers, erasing parts, applying customized brushes, etc.
But it takes many many time to do it and I cannot render the same effect.

Perhaps do you have a better approach or a script or a plugin to achieve the task ?

If you search for "dispersion photoshop" images in Google, you will find a lot of examples.
This effect is very popular.

Jean-Luc

[LeviFiction]

It's an action script. It relies on a huge amount of actions. It also uses the effect "crystallise" I think Effects - > Texture Effects -> Tiles to simulate it. It'll take me a while to convert the action into a useable script but you should be able to get something close. Assuming I'm not missing something important in my very fast review of the action.

[Cassel]

Without making it into a script, i have a class where i show how to do it manually:

http://scrapbookcampus.com/master-class ... sp-part-3/

I would dream of making it into a script, for sure. But maybe levifiction will beat me to it!

[LeviFiction]

EDIT: Okay script is coming along slowly. I'm probably over complicating it. but this thing creates 30 different layers, then disperses them left, right, up, or down, depending on the script you run. Among other things it does.

I'm going to make a script that randomizes the dispersion based on a min and max that you select as well as identifying a direction. This way you can use one script for what normally takes them 4 actions. But I think I'm making head-way.

[JoeB]

If PSP has a brush set similar to the PS Splatters Brush set then perhaps the tutorial at this link could be scripted to do something similar to what Jean-Luc requested:

http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/ho ... photoshop/

[photodrawken]

I don't understand why one would want an action (or script) to do this -- the general technique is simple, involving only 3 layers and 2 masks.

All the fun of doing this technique is in dabbing the splatter brushes on the masks, varying the properties of the brush(es) to get a custom effect. Then you can have even more fun by distorting those masks with various blurring, perturbations, etc., etc.

[Kathy_9]

EDIT: Okay script is coming along slowly. I'm probably over complicating it. but this thing creates 30 different layers, then disperses them left, right, up, or down, depending on the script you run. Among other things it does.

I'm going to make a script that randomizes the dispersion based on a min and max that you select as well as identifying a direction. This way you can use one script for what normally takes them 4 actions. But I think I'm making head-way.

Sounds like a fun script. Can't wait to try it.

[JoeB]

I agree.

[Ernie]

Some Photo Shop Dispersion brushes work fine. Providing they are ABR files they can be imported to your brush lists.

[hartpaul]

There are several videos on youtube demonstrating this effect. You also get different appearances by using different brushes eg hard square brush, smoke trial brush, ripple brush. Different brush types can be imported and used to suit your theme.
You can also take your time in applying the brush strokes or use a randomised jitter effect.
My result

The layers palette that produced this:

and a method
Shattered image
1. Duplicate image twice for three images. Hide bottom and top image
2.Select middle image (2) and remove object - object remover. Hide layer
3. Select top layer (3) Use object extractor and duplicate (upper 3)
4. Second top layer (3>4) warp to move parts to where explosion occurs.
5. Hide all (black mask)
6. Top layer (upper 3) Show all mask (white)
7. White brush, jitter set, paint on black mask (5) to show the distorted parts
8. Black brush, paint on white mask (6) to hide parts of original extracted image on( upper 3
9. Make object removed layer (2) visible.