Written By Steve Patterson

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to look at another movie poster-type of effect. We're going to learn how to create the illusion that a piece of a photo is torn away to reveal another photo underneath it. I saw this effect used in a poster for a tv show on the FX Network, and when I realized how easy it would be to do something similar in Photoshop, well, here we are.

To create the effect, we'll be colorizing one photo and converting the second one to black and white, then adding some noise, enhancing shadows and highlights, and using a few layer masks to blend it all together.

I'm going to use this same photo from one of our other recent tutorials, Create An Optical Illusion By Filling A Photo With More Photos, because it works perfectly for the effect we're going for here:

I'm also going to be using this photo, or more specifically, the guy from this photo:

And here's the final effect we'll be working towards:

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