Dispersion Effect - Creative Exercise 3

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Introduction

    It took me awhile to come up with a creative exercise this week. I completed all of my other tasks except for this one. I actually did a few creative activities, but I didn’t think that the first two did me any justice. The one that I ended up going with is learning how to create a Dispersion Effect in Photoshop. I grabbed a tutorial off of YouTube, and I began to watch and create. The tutorial is called Dispersion Effect ~ Photoshop Tutorial, and it was created by CreativeSalek. I will post the link below.

Tutorial

Design Process

    I chose to take a picture of my daughter, and I opened it up in Photoshop. I selected her from the photo, and I opened up a new layer.

    I then clicked the select layer and mask to get rid of anything I didn’t want and I was able to bring back some of the picture that I needed. Then I selected output two to open up a new layer.

    I added more space around the picture, and I added a grey and black gradient background. I styled it with a radial shape.

    Then, I went up to filter, and I selected liquify. I drug the back and the top of the picture out to the end of the background. A negative layer was added to the liquefied layer, and a regular layer was added to the normal layer above.

    I selected a splatter brush with the color black and kind of faded the back edge of the photo changing different sizes and turning the brush. The same was done for the regular layer.

    Lastly, I added an adjustment layer, and I selected Gradient Map. I chose a gradient out of the purple selection. It was made up of orange, pinks, and purples. I blended it with the color mode, and I lowered the opacity to 15%.

Final Result


Conclusion

    I learned how to do a new technique. It took me a bit to complete this little piece. In the beginning, I was a bit frustrated because I am still learning how to use tools and navigate Photoshop. I had to restart a couple of times before I was able to figure out what was going on in the tutorial. Overall, I really enjoyed the exercise, and I have another technique under my belt. I thought it turned out pretty good for my first time executing the dispersion effect.

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