Link to the stock image:
http://superstar-stock.deviantart.com/a ... loggedin=1

Clever! Thanks, Jolie!

Very interesting. I think if my picture had darker colors it would look better. It was fun!

O, you could always add another layer with black background and reduce the opacity til it gives you that refractive look.

Just for the glass area, not the entire image.

Nicely done Julie!

Lol, very funny...and also a great tutorial!

I'll have to start over. I didn't save it as an xcf file.

Great tutorial Jolie, thanks for sharing it.

Great idea to use it on a picture frame O.

When I was trying this out I tried different backgrounds, and different broken glass images and found that sometimes you need to do some color corrections on the picture layer too.

Some more broken glass images:
http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=glass&o ... 24#/d6nxlh

very nice tutorial Jolie

I tried mahvin's suggestion. It does help.

another splash image to test out this shattered glass thing.

this took a bit of time......and while I was changing the blend mode to overlay I thought, what if I did a color to alpha? my particular glass image (which I think I grabbed from flickr) was all black background.

that worked and really looks the same as changing the blend mode but kinda looked a bit flat so i duplicated the layer and ran the glass script because I figured that could add a shadow layer that would help give it a better 3D look.

there's a bunch of other layers but what one does really has more to do with the original glass image. Sure learned a few things doing this.

Cecilia, that looks so good. Like real, broken/shattered glass. Excellent job!

thanks

I spent some time looking for suitable glass....one of these is this image


radiate by ~My aim is true~, on Flickr

but I think the main 'trick' is realizing that glass - and especially broken glass - has all sorts of reflections and refractions. suggesting that with several layers fools the eye.