Hello! Welcome back to another update of Photoshop Tutorial. Today, we’ll look at how to create “Photo Slice” graphic design  concept using Photoshop. Here we’re going to cut an image into pieces and give it a nice slice effect. We’ll use some new tools to create of this effect so you have to focus.

Let’s start with the designing process over a new photoshop document. Let’s try having a standard document size of 1920 width and 1080height.

Now open the folder containing your image and drag it into photoshop. I’ll use Isha Blaaker’s photo for now.  Afterwards, scale the size of your image while pressing Alt + Shift then press Enter.

The first thing we’re going to do is to remove the background color. To remove that, we have to rasterize your layer. In order to do that, right click on your layer and pick Rasterize Layer. Next, just likethe past  lessons, you can now make a selection of your model. After making a selection, select the select options on the top bar, choose inverse and hit delete.

Unlock your background layer by double clicking on it and pressing okay. Then again double click on it to open the Layer Panel. Here apply color overlay and choose a dark color using the color picker option. We can see that when we changed the background color to black, white edges are visible tothe photo. To remove that, create a mask layer on your image, double click on the mask layer, click mask edge, then adjust your feather and shift edge until your satisfied with the look (decrease shift edge and add feather). We’re going to do this to have a smooth edge around the face and have a clean image. Click okay when you’re done.

Next hide the effect of the background by pressing the eye icon beside the effect on your layer 0 so that we’ll get a white color.

Do a copy of your image layer by right clicking on the layer, choose duplicate layer and hit okay. Afterwards, hide the bottom one. We’re going to need to Rasterize our image copy now by right clicking on it’s layer,Convert to Smart Object, right click again then Rasterize.

Now we’re going to turn the image into black and white. In order to do so, go to Image > Adjustments > > Black & white andthen click OK. Here we’ve got  a black & white image.

Now, we’re going to remove the bottom part of the face (the neck) because all we need here is the head. So click the pen tool and start tracing out the shape, click and drag to follow along the jaw line. After making the shape, right click and click make selection. After that, apply masks which will hide the head region. Press Ctrl + I to invert the mask. Next, double click on the layer mask and increase the feather to soften the edges.

Let us start dividing the shape into pieces. Take the pen tool and start tracing out the chin part of the face and follow along the anatomy of the face. This will create a shape. In the same way, trace out up to the nose part following along the ear shape and close the path. Do the same for the forehead region, trace it out and close the path.

After that, select the image copy layer and press right
click, convert to smart object and again right click and rasterize layer.

Now make a selection by Ctrl + click on the thumbnail of our first shape. Then click the image copy layer and press Ctrl + X to cut and Ctrl+ V to paste it at the same place in a new layer. Similarly, cut and copy all the parts using the shape layers by making a selection. In this way, we’ll have all the parts in different layers.

Hide out all the layers except the chin part. Using the pen tool, start creating a shape to give a slice effect. It will be used to give depth to the face. After creating a shape, go to the fill color panel and apply gradient color and place it under the chin part layer. Next, unhide the nose part and move it up a bit then by pressing the alt key, dig a copy of the shape and place it along the nose part. You can use the direct selection tool to match the shape with the flow of the curves. After the adjustments, do the same for the top parts as well.

Now let’s do the gradient color assessments of each shapes.
Double-click on the shape layer to open the gradient filter panel. In that
panel click on the color palette, and choose magenta color (ff008a) next select
the second slider and choose a darker color. In the same way, open the color
panel for the other shapes and change the colors. Nose: ff0000, 3e0000 ; Top:
ff5a00, 5f2600. Now unhide the head part and move it up.

Finally, click on the ellipse tool and create out a flat
oval shape under the chin to serve as a shadow. Go to Filter > Blur >
Motion Blur. Make sure to rasterize your shape before performing this tasks.
Afterwards, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

There you go. ^_^