Particle disperse guide

Start

The tool opens with two sample pictures, A and B, and the Ash preset. The picture fills the frame; the panel sits beside it.

What you need

• A current browser with WebGL. Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all have it.
• Two pictures of your own, if you want them. Any image the browser can open works; the samples are there until you swap them.

Your first result

1. Open Particle disperse and tap the picture. Picture A breaks into points that fly out from that point, and picture B appears under them. See tap origin.
2. Tap again. Now B breaks apart over A.
3. Press a preset under Presets, such as Detonate, then press Replay at the top of the panel to see it from the last point you tapped.
4. At the top of the panel, press the Image A and Image B tiles to pick your own two pictures, or drop two at once.
5. Press Save PNG for a still, or Record video to keep one full run.

Good to know

• A tap during a run does nothing; wait for it to finish. Replay always starts again at once.
• Moving any slider takes the highlight off the preset, and the next run uses your settings.
• The frame takes the shape of picture A. Picture B is stretched to that shape, so two pictures of the same shape look best.
• On a phone the controls sit in a bar at the bottom of the screen. Tap the bar to open them.