Art Fragmentation

This is a simple way of turning any photograph into a beautiful piece of art.

Above, you can see the original image, and the image created in this tutorial. The image used can be found here: 

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.indiacrossroads.com/celebs/freidapinto/FreidaPinto_main.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.indiacrossroads.com/celebs/freidapinto/&usg=__klvydz4TYvYculad5_FFH_ZkC0Y=&h=398&w=276&sz=44&hl=en&start=150&zoom=1&tbnid=upCx6kS4jfjDOM:&tbnh=151&tbnw=114&ei=gZP6TcS_G87G8QOS3YyqCQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfreida%2Bpinto%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D634%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=526&page=7&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:150&tx=63&ty=74&biw=1366&bih=634

  

   STEP 1 

Duplicate the background layer right click on the layer > duplicate layer 

(or use shortcut ctrl + J).

STEP 2

Change the layer style to Overlay

The image should look a little something like this...

 STEP 3

Duplicate the layer again (ctrl + J), this time changing the style  to screen.

STEP 4

Merge these layers together to make one layer.
Right click on a layer > merge visible.

STEP 5

Now it is time to create the blur. Duplicate this new merged layer (ctrl + J). For this you will use a filter called Gaussian Blur : Filter>blur>Gaussian blur.

    Change the radius of the pixels to your desired choice. I think it’s good to be blurred enough to be different from the image, but not so much that you can’t tell it’s the same image. For this I used 7px.

STEP 6 

Using the rectangular marquee tool, make a selection similar to that shown above.

STEP 7

Hit the delete button, which will remove that part of the image.

To remove the selection go to Select>deselect (or shortcut ctrl + D). 

This is how your image should be looking. 

STEP 8

The final step is to create the border. 

To do this go to Layer>layer style> stroke

To create the frame, we will use these values. 

Choose a light colour for the frame

That is your image completed. You can experiment with different layer styles, and the size/shape of the blurred border!