Photograph Separation Effect

[Kevin Camp]

i don’t know any tutorials right off hand, but i’m sure they are out there… but it mainly involves photoshop…

take you image into photoshop and duplicate the layer, then start separating the elements that you want to move separately from the background. you can get as elaborate as you want, but you’ll want to have at least 2 layers (the subject and the background).

once you have successfully ‘cutout’ the foreground element(s), hide them, and start using some tools to ‘erase’ those elements from the background layer. tools like rubber stamp, healing brush, patch tool, paint brush and even the smudge tool are useful in ‘erasing’ areas like these.

once you have your layers separated and touched up, you can import the psd as a comp (with layers in tact) to further manipulate them. i would make the layers 3d and distribute them in z space as needed (background furthest away, foreground closest). if the image is not the size of the destination (like dv or hd preset), then take that comp into a comp that has the destination specs and enable ‘collapse transformations’ for the nested comp (a check box in the layer switches that looks like a spiky sun).

add a comp camera and manipulate the position and rotation/orbit of the camera. you should see some of the motion you are looking for. you can make adjustments to the individual layers as needed to get the effect you are looking for.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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[Kevin Dearing]

Andrew Kramer has a tutorial here:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=63

–KTFA

[Ron Lindeboom]

You can also check out Adobe’s dynamic media guru, Bob Donlon, who in his blog covers the effect at

https://blogs.adobe.com/bobddv/2006/09/son_of_ben_kurns.html

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[David Bogie]

See Adobetv, too.

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