Creating a shatter effect

So in this first of a series of movies about working with sample brushes I'm…going to be creating or re-creating this dramatic shatter image and this is…going to be derived from this picture of a shattered window on which I've…really forces the contrast and makes the shatter areas almost white and the…background pretty much black.…Something to bare in mind when creating sample brushes is that there is a…maximum size of 2500 pixels square.…The images that we're going to be working with here are about 1200 pixels at…there maximum dimension.…

When you are working with a sample brush, typically you want to work with it you…want to paint with it at the resolution that you sampled at.…Some textures will be more for giving and you can go smaller, few will allow you…to go to larger and get a good result.…So I am going to come to the Select menu and to Color Range and pretty much…what it gives me is what I want, so I'm just going to click OK to that I now…have an active selection and I am going to come to the Edit menu and down to…