Shattered Text Effect

Step 1:
Open up photoshop and create a new canvas with the sizes 1500 x 720px and fill it with Black #000000. Once
you have that set up, grab your text tool (T) and choose a nice bold font. In this case I used MyriadBold, at a
size of 70pt and Filled White #FFFFFF. I centered the text on the canvas and then rasterized the layer. To
Rasterize make sure your text layer is selected and then go to Layer>Rasterize>Type this will turn your text
layer into a flat layer, ready for editing. Name the layer Creative. You should have something like this below.

Step 2:
Now that you have your Type setup on the canvas and your layer Rasterized. Its time to get editing. Grab your
pen tool make sure at the top that you have Paths option selected, we dont want to work with Shape Layers
in this tutorial. Make sure your Creative layer is selected, now use your pen tool and draw a line around the
middle part of the C, then when you have closed your path make sure you right click and hit Make Selection,
Make sure you choose 0 Radius when the box comes up just hit OK. Then go to Edit>Cut (CTRL + X) Now
go to Edit>Paste (CTRL + V) this should paste half the C into a new layer. By using the Move Tool (V) you are
able to move the half C around and position it as you like. This is my outcome.

Step 3:
In this step I will show you have I made the R stretch up like that. Firstly Duplicate your Creative Layer by
selecting the layer and going to Layer>Duplicate layer Now hide that layer by clicking the Little Eye Icon next
the the layer name on the left hand side. Now create a new layer below your Creative copy layer and grab your
pen tool. Now create a Sharp Triangle Shape over the R and then fill it with Black #000000, be sure that you
filled the layer in the New Layer you created below the Creative Copy Layer.
Now that you have your black filled shape covering your R unhide the Creative copy layer above it and then
right click the layer and select Create Clipping Mask (CTRL + ALT + G). You shouldnt see a change just yet,
but grab your move tool (V) and move the Creative copy Layer down a bit, you will see it influences the feel of
the R. Move the layer to a position that you are happy with.

Step 4:
Now that we have our R sorted out its time to move onto the next letters. Using the Same techniques as earlier
lets shift and delete and play around with the EATIVE text. A brief run through the steps are Make sure your
Creative Layer is selected and grab your Pen tool, select the part of the letter you want to move and then Cut
it, Edit>Cut (CTRL+X) and then Paste it Edit>Paste (CTRL+V) and then use the Move Tool (V) to shift the
shapes around. I will give you some time now to run through the letters, I will show you the progress of my
letters below.

Step 5:
Now that your Creative word is totaly sliced up and moved around its time to bring in our second word. Block
Grab your type tool and Type BLOCK with the same font and a size of 40pt filled white #FFFFFF. Rasterize the
layer by going to Layer>Rasterize>Type or Right Click>Rasterize. Now your word is setup and ready to go.
Their is nothing fancy about cutting up the word block in this tutorial, play around and use your imagination.
Select the parts and cut and paste them and move them around to create a sliced feel of the word. This was
my outcome after I sliced up the word Block as well.

Step 6:
Now we are past the hard part of the tutorial. Now we are going to use stock images to just spice up the piece
a bit. Firstly get yourself a nice concrete texture, I used one out of my 24 High-Res Concrete
Textures available here on Creativeoverflow. I placed the concrete texture above all my other layers and then
set the Blending Mode to Darken. Now, this might take some concentration, you have to Hold down CTRL +
SHIFT and click each individual Layers Tiny Window. This will highlight the Layer with the selection tool. Go
down your layers list and be sure to select all of them. This is what your selected items should look like with the
texture on top.

Now go to your Texture layer and select it by just clicking on it and then select the Add Vector Mask button on
your layers pallett, its right next the the FX button at the bottom. Another alternative is to go to Layer>Vector
Mask>Hide all and then use your brush with white to fill the highlighted areas.

Step 7:
I know that the piece doesnt look very attractive at the moment, but we will change that. Go to your Textured
layer and select your Burn Tool (O). Set the exposure to 50% and choose a medium sized soft brush. Burn the
edges of the Letters to create a contrasting effect. I have pointed them out to you in the preview below.

Step 8:
Now go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Brightness and Contrast Set the Brightness to +14 and the
Contrast to +100. This should add some depth to your Lettering, but not enough. We are going to a layer style
to the sliced pieces. Double click on one of the sliced pieces and choose a Drop Shadow and. Use the settings
below. then hit OK.

Now right click on your layer that you just adding the Layer Style to and select Copy Layer Style. Now Select
all the Sliced Layers, excluding your two word layers (Creative and Block), Your R layer and Textured Layer.
You can select them by holding down CTRL and clicking on each layers name. Once you have them all
selected right click on anyone of them and select Paste Layer Style. This should add a large amount of depth
and diversity to your letters.

Step 9:
Now create a new layer by going to Layer>New>Layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N) and then fill it with Black #000000
now set the blending mode of the layer to Color Dodge and select your brush tool. Use a fairly large soft brush
with striking colors, example orange, Green, Pink, Blue. I used Green and orange and vaguely touched the
edges of the Text. Next I created another New Layer and filled it with Black #000000, I set the Blending Mode
to Overlay and grabbed my Brush tool with the same soft brush and just selected White #FFFFFF as my
foreground color. I brushed on the lettering to bring out some light and highlights in the text.

Step 10:
Our final step for this tutorial is pretty basic, we use the Smashed Glass by Ryan Cooley image and import it
into our Composition. We set the blending mode of the layer to Linear Dodge and we erase some of the parts
that we dont want. Now you are done with the tutorial. Hopefully you have smashed your creative block into
pieces. You are more than welcome to add on your own bits and pieces, but I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.