January 6: Dispersion (Technique Challenge)

For those of you having trouble, I was having a hard time too for a bit until I realized I needed to make sure the MASK was selected before using the brush. If you have Photoshop Elements 2018 it will look like this in the layers area. Make sure the mask is highlighted the light blue, not the image.

 

I thought this picture of my daughter trying on a Mardi Gras mask was perfect to use on this technique and then make into an art journal page. Thanks for the challenge. I had so much fun!

 

I do most of my scrapbooking in Artisan too and played with this challenge for a bit this morning. I used a similar technique to GennieJoy (GennieJoy- the smudge tool was a brilliant idea!), but did some things differently so I thought I'd share. I think my technique is slightly more complicated, but gives you more control.

I used the wand to extract the flower (the other day) and copied it so I had two. I smudged the bottom one (with the largest smudge and the largest brush size) and then saved it as a jpeg, imported it to my photos panel, and then hid it on the main page. I used the erase brush to erase the edges of my original flower and then brought in a few splatters and filled them with the smudged flower from the photo panel.

The end result, without turning it into a page or spending much time on it was this:

I hope this helps, feel free to message me if you need help fellow artisan users!

 

Still reading posts in the thread. I have not tried this yet, but you are on your way. Add an Effect, Mask to your blurred layer to get it "splattered". Then for your top layer, you also want to add a mask, but you will need one that keeps the main part of your photo intact.

Another way to do this that comes to mind is instead of using the masks, use the erase tool. Set the brush size to have lots of fussiness and randomly erase portions, varying the size of the erase tool.

 

This is a real challenge for me ... I look for a photo and give it a try!

 

Love learning something new, so thanks! Here's my LO, I've used this photo before but it immediately came to mind:

 

Well, Jan.. I did it my own way, but I made it *sorta* work!

 

I thought I posted it here, but I must have posted it somewhere else. Oops!
Here's my page.

 

I also suck at extracting, but even if you only have a very rough edge as long as you mask that away in the original un-distorted layer it doesn't really matter. I only have a very VERY rough extraction and all the jagged edges I just removed with my fraction brush. After all you are removing parts of the object, so all the outside edges that aren't perfect can just go...

 

This was so super fun to play with Jan! Love this tutorial. My photo wasn't great to begin with so this was a fun way to make it more interesting and add action!

 

giving you a big hug and vote of confidence...we are all here to help, and will do what we can to get you thru this!
smile, you are gonna rock this, and once you get it, will be unstopable!

 

Super cool challenge and a great technique for art prints.