What technique to "explode" an image?

I'd like to "explode" an image in Motion 5, like with a particle emitter or a replicator with repel or attract behavior, but all the tutorials I've found for "exploding" things in Motion deal with text - exploding text here, exploding text there... haven't been able to find one showing how to explode an image. I'm anticipating a possible problem with the particles or replicator cells all being the same color rather than the different colors in the image, so I'm concerned about it looking like the bits are pieces of the image as they separate away. This is one of the last effects for completing the first segment of my project and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for achieving decent-looking results. Like, will I need to use multiple objects to represent the different colors in the image?