In addition to creating a pretty cool artistic effect, this tutorial will help you to learn or practice these Photoshop techniques:
- Working with Layers
- Using a Paintbrush
- Working with a Layer Mask
- Editing a Layer Mask
To begin with, we must plan our work. What do we want to be doing what? In my dog picture above, Rhett is jumping OUT of the frame. So his hindquarters are in the frame and his front half is the breakout.
In the kitty picture to the right, I made him going INTO the frame, so his back half is the breakout — the part outside of the frame.
In this cyclist picture to the right, his right arm and his feet are in the breakout section.
Now that you’ve figured out what you’re going to do, identify your breakout. For Rhett, the breakout will be his front part of his body. I’ll be using him for the purposes of this tutorial.
Make a new layer beneath your photo layer. (You may have to double-click your photo layer in the Layers palette to make it a regular layer first.)
What we will need next is to make a selection of the framed area and the breakout part of Rhett. My framed area is a rectangle. I’ll begin by selecting this rectangle with the Rectangular Marquee.
Next, we need to add to this selection the breakout portion of our subject. Hold the Shift key and thus add to your selection.
Depending upon your subject, you may want to use a different method of selecting it, but, for Rhett, I’m using Object Selection tool
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Don’t worry if your selection is not perfect at this point. You’ll touch it up in the next step.
Be sure that you are on the image layer. Now click the Add Layer Mask button at the bottom of the Layers palette 
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Now is the time to touch up your selection. Zoom in, choose a small brush, and get that edge as perfect as you want. Black on the mask will hide the edge.
Add some fairy dust or a shadow, if it suits your image. Here, I’ve added a frame to my picture, changed the background, and sprinkled in some pixie dust.
I do hope that you enjoyed this tutorial!
