Photoshop to make cracked porcelain effect

1. Open an image that you want to add an effect to (Figure 1).

Figure 1

2. Select the Magic Wand tool, hold down SHIFT and select the dark background area around the ceramic cup and highlight all background areas. Then execute the menu-select-Reverse, so that the selection in turn selects the porcelain cup (Figure 2).

Figure 2

3. Copy and paste part of the porcelain cup in the selection, perform menu-filter-pixel-lattice, cell size set to 20 pixels (Figure 3).

Figure 3

4. After the completion of the menu-filter-styling-Find the Edge (Figure 4).

Figure 4

5. It is now possible to see the cracks on the surface of the porcelain cup that have been produced, but still obscure. Let's make the crack clear. Execute menu-image-Adjust-level, enter 0, 0.10, 255 in the parameter box of the input of the color order, and then execute the menu-image-Adjust-go color (Figure 5).

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6. All right! Now the crack is ready! The following is to combine these cracks with the porcelain cup itself. The menu-filter-render-lighting effect is first performed, and the lighting parameters and light direction are set to look like (Figure 6), and the effect is as shown (Figure 7).

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7. Finally, change the mixed mode of the cracked layer to multiply, and change the opacity of the layer to about 10%. A cracked ceramic cup was completed (Fig. 8).

Figure 8