Dissolving squares

[purplemonster]

Hey guys, I need you to help me figure out how this effect is done, but with squares:



As you can see the guy is fading into different objects, but I want to fade my image into small squares of different shapes, to give it a virtual look. I would normaly put the background layer over the part I want to fade and starting deleting squares. But that would take too long and wouldn't look prescise, is there any brushes or something that does this? Thanks in advance.

[macfan6]

I picture seems to have two colour layers for the birds: black and dark blue. I would suggest using the same technique they've used: whole objects fading into mashed objects. What you need is a square brush like the preset Special Effect Brushes. If you could find some square brushes like that, experiment with splatters of different sizes. I'll have a look around the net for some.

[macfan6]

I've just been experimenting in Photoshop. Go into Windows and select brushes.

You will notice with the Special Effect brushes they have Scattering ticked next to them. Click on the Square Brushes and select Scattering. You can highlight Scattering and experiment with the controls.

You might want to experiment with Colour Dynamics. With this make the background colour the dark colour, and the foreground the light colour. If this doesn't give you the effect you want. You can create each colour as a separate layer.