Photoshop Tutorial: Tearing A Photo To Reveal Another

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Step 16: Paint With Black Around The Edges Of The Second Image

Select the Brush Tool once again, and with black still as your Foreground color, use a large soft-edge brush and paint around the edges of the second image to hide them, just as we did with the main image.

In my case, I'm going to hide all the edges so that only the are around the guy's face is left showing:

The image after painting away the edges on the second image.

Photoshop Effects: The image after painting away everything except the area around the guy's face in the second image.

I'm also going to paint along the edge of where the left "tear edge" of the main photo meets the second image, which will create a nice drop shadow effect on the left side of the guy's face, giving the image some depth. I'm going to keep the main part of my brush cursor just to the left of the tear edge so that only the soft edge of the brush is extending onto his face as I paint:

Adding a shadow along the left side of the guy's face.

Photoshop Effects: Creating a shadow with the Brush Tool along the left side of the guy's face.

Here's my image after painting the shadow along the left side of his face:

The image after painting a shadow along the left side of the guy's face.

Photoshop Effects: The shadow along the left side of the guy's face adds some depth to the image.

Step 17: Add Some Noise To The Image

Click on the very top layer in the Layers palette, which should be your Hue/Saturation layer, and then click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette to add a new layer above all the others:

Photoshop Effects: Add a new layer at the top of the Layers palette.

Press Ctrl+Backspace (Win) / Command+Delete (Mac) to fill the new layer with white. Then go up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, choose Noise and then choose Add Noise, which brings up the "Add Noise" dialog box. I'm going to set my Amount to somewhere around 20% to add a little noise to the image, and I'm going to make sure that Ihave the Gaussian and Monochromatic options at the bottom selected:

Photoshop's 'Add Noise' filter dialog box.

Photoshop Effects: Add some noise to the image with the "Add Noise" filter.

Your image will now be filled with black and white noise. Go up to the blend mode option in the top left corner of the Layers palette and change the blend mode for the layer from "Normal" to Color Burn and lower the Opacity value down to about 30%:

Changing the blend mode and opacity values of the noise layer.

Photoshop Effects: Change the blend mode of the noise layer to "Color Burn" and lower the opacity to about 30%.

Here's my image at this point. We're almost done:

The image after adding noise.

Photoshop Effects: The image after adding noise.

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