Step 1 - Find the Photos That We'll Use

I will find all the images from the beginning so we don't have to bother with that later on. So I will need an old wall photo, an brick wall photo, an old window photo, a landscape photo and of course the broken window brush image. This are all very beautiful images that are making the hole photo manipulation process possible.

Here is a link where you can find a nice free set with broken glass brushes .

And this is where you can find extra broken glass tutorials .

This broken window manipulation is the most simple idea I could find, you can of course use the broken glass effect in all kinds of ways if you have a vast imagination and I am sure you have!

Step 2 - Let's Begin!

Copy all of the above images into your file and name them because I will refer to them after their names. The canvas size is 500/500 pixels.

First we will deal with the Old Window Layer . With the help of the Pen Tool I will trace the contour of the window and the glass and I will erase from the image the wood wall and the glass from the window.

So take the Pen Tool and make four selections like in the image . Than merge all the 4 shapes and press CTRL and click the thumbnail of the new merged layer. You can see that a selection was made; return to Old Window layer and press delete button.

Now it is time to crop the window from its background. With the Pen Tool create the shape of the window. To see exactly what are you doing you have to set the opacity of the shape layer to 0% so you can see the window layer from behind You may also want to try to Zoom in the image if you want to obtain a better crop or if you wear glasses like I do.

You can see that the window has a little shadow..include that shadow in the shape too. Ok now rasterize the shape and do the same steps: press CTRL and click the thumbnail of the shape layer than go to Old Window layer. Be sure you have selected the Magic Wand Tool. Right click on the selection and choose Select Inverse. Now press delete button. Now hide all the shape layers.

Step 3 - Make a Bigger Window

The window is too small so I have decided to make it bigger so we can see the landscape.

Duplicate the old Window Layer than go to Edit - Transform - Flip Vertical and move it downwards like in the image below. I have changed the color so you can the the both of them better.

Ok so you can see in the image the further moves: select the indicated areas from Old Duplicated Window Layer and delete it. Than select the indicated area from the Old Window Layer and press CTRL+X and CTRL+V and move the new layer downwards.

This should be the result so far: