Create a Fractured Cubist Painting

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Abstraction comes from unrealistic colors, fracturing, and distortion.  This tutorial is about fracturing.

Here is Dr. Bear.  I start by minimizing the background, select color range.

 After selecting the background color, I copy the background and use the bucket to make it black.

In a new layer I draw fracture lines.

I select the lines so I can cut them into my photo layer.

I have then gone to inverse in selection.

In edit on the background I choose copy.

 Copy Special

 I then cut the lines.

 With my selection polygon lasso tool I select  a selection, cut, then paste it on its own layer.

Second selection.

Etcetera  until complete.

In each layer I go to Adjust color balance (remember, wild color Fauves) and make the first layer blue.

Second layer red.

Third layer etc.

In the background I change with adjust threshold.

After duplicating I make one Blue.

Here is my black only threshold background.

Now I am moving my layers around to fracture  the photo.

Some of them need to change size- using the  edit tool.

The yellow selection gets larger in edit.

More moving- note the double nose.

Some of the layers are then rotated.

I add the black lines back.

And the black background on the top layer.

Now I will add one or more different filters to each layer.

When It is more loud than I like, after editing I fade filter gallery in edit.

I can also adjust using equalize or many different adjustments.

When finished, I try different layer styles, blending options in each layer.  Some I may duplicate.

Here I am adjusting by changing hue and saturation.

I also am adding an adjustment gradient.

Her I am changing the layer style of the black layer.

Here is a duplicate of all the layers with a new adjustment.

 Right now I like what I see, so save it so I still can  play with other changes.

More changes.

A second look.