In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll use selection and shape tools to create the 3D illusion of face sliced into a few parts and we’ll color in some shadows and make things seem much cool practicing a few tips and methods in Photoshop CC.
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Step 01
- Open photoshop software
- Go to the “File” menu and click on “Open”
- Select the picture.
- Go to the “Adjustment layer” and click on “Black & White” option.
- Make sure that all the slider is on “0%”.
- Now go to “Tool Bar” and select “Magnetic Lasso Tool”.
- Make selection of the face.
- Now click on the “Layer Mask” button so the face will be separate from the body.
- Press “Ctrl+J” which make a copy of the same layer.
- Go to the copy of “Layer mask” right click on the layer mask and click on “Apply Layer Mask”.
- Name it “Slice From Here”.





Step 02
- Now go to the “Tool Bar” and “Select Ellipse Tool”.
- Draw a round shape on the face with the help of “Select Ellipse Tool” as shown in the screenshot.
- Name this layer “Cute 1”.
- Do the same for the whole face and rename each layer (exp; cut 2, cut 3 & so on).
- Now make a copy of all the “Cuts layers”.
- To do so hold “Shift Key” click on the first cut then on the last cut it will select all the cuts layers.
- Now press “Ctrl+J”.



Step 03
- Now “Turn Off” all the cuts layer.
- Now we will use cuts copy the original cuts will be used later.
- So first “Turn On” “Cut 1 Copy”.
- Go to “Tool Bar” and right-click on “Path Selection Tool”.
- Select the “Direct Selection Tool”.
- Then click on the ellipse shape you will see small points on the edges.
- Hold click on the top point and move up, make sure it goes outside the face.
- Now hold “Ctrl key” and click on the cut 1 copy thumbnail(it will make a selection).
- Go to the “Slice From Here” layer and press on “Ctrl+Shift+J”.
- It will separate that piece from the face and rename it “Slice 1”.
- Now delete the “Cut 1 Copy” layer.
- Do the same process for the whole face.






Step 04
- Leave the “Slice 1” start from “Slice 2”.
- Select the “Cut 2” and put it under the “Slice 2”.
- Now grouped “Slice 2” and “Cut 2”.
- Now select “Cut 3” layer and put it under the “Slice 3” layer and grouped it.
- Do the same for all layers.
- Select the “Slice 1” layer and select the “Move Tool”.
- Use “Arrow Keys” to move the slice left or right.
- Move all the slices as shown in the screenshot.



Step 05
- Now select the “Cut 1” and double click on the thumbnail of the cut 1.
- “Style Layer” window will be opened then click on “Color Overlay” option and you can change color from there.
- Now we have to make “Shadow” so select black color and take “Brush” from “Brush Tool”.
- Make sure that the hardness of the brush is 0%.
- Set the background according to your point of view.





This how the final result looks like
