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Here’s the same television we used before, placed against
a black background. If you’re going to use explosions
and flying glass, the effect always works best against a dark
background; explosions rarely show up well against white.
4
Now we can bring in the flying glass and broken screen
from the previous page, rotating it to fit the new angle of
the screen border. That’s the basics of the television finished:
all we need to do now is to add the elements that will make
the destruction look more explosive.
W
HICH OF US HASN’T WANTED, AT
some time or other, to take a
sledgehammer to our computer when it
freezes? Or to our television during an election
broadcast? With Photoshop, it’s easy to vent
your anger without voiding your insurance.
The illustration above was for a Sunday
Telegraph article about the collapse of housing
prices. It’s a straightforward metaphor, but
added more interest than the usual shot of a
row of For Sale signs.
The principles of breaking up technology
apply equally well to televisions as to houses:
it’s a matter of making holes and then filling the
gaps. Following on from the previous page, we’ll
look here at how to make a television explode.
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Smashing things up 1
FIREWORK IMAGE: COREL
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Hyper realism
SHORTCUTS
MAC WIN BOTH
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HOT TIP
In the introductory
illustration
(opposite), I had to
build the interiors
of the rooms
visible where the
brick wall had
broken away. This
was easily done
by shading and
distorting patches
of wallpaper to
match the existing
perspective.
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Begin by selecting the front panel, then cut it to a new
layer using SCj SLj. It’s now easy to
distort it to a new position: although I’ve kept it close to the
original, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have it flying
halfway across the room.
5
Fireworks make great explosions. This firework has been
placed just in front of the rotated side, and the black
background knocked out of it using the techniques described
in Chapter 3. The back edge of the side was painted out on a
layer mask so that the firework spilled out behind it.
3
Repeat this process with the side, rotating it in the
opposite direction. Add some shading with the Burn tool
to give the effect of a shadow. You’ll also need to draw the
inside of the frame, on a new layer: simply fill the outline with
a color picked from the TV, and shade it.
6
The firework layer is duplicated to make a second
explosion, and a bunch of other electronic material is
added to give the impression of the guts of the TV flying out in
disarray. Next time you upgrade your computer, remember to
photograph the boards before throwing them away.
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