When people think of mazes, they often think of children's educational games. These games are most commonly found in newspapers or children's books. However, today we are not playing a maze game with you, but making a colorful texture that looks like a maze. It is mainly produced through 4 filters combined with color adjustment, with exquisite effects and gorgeous colors.
1. Start Photoshop CS, create a new square canvas with a white background, confirm that the foreground color is black and the background color is white, execute the "Filter → Render → Cloud" command to apply the cloud filter to the image. Then execute the "Filter → Artistic Effect → Shading Effect" command, and in the "Shading Effect" dialog box, set "Texture" to "Canvas", "Brush Size" to 6, and "Texture Overlay" to 16.
2. Continue to execute the "Filter→Stylize→Lighten Edge" command, and in the "Lighten Edge" dialog box, set the "Edge Width" to 5, the "Edge Brightness" to 10, and the "Smoothness" to 1. The effect is as follows. As shown in Figure 1.
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| Figure 1 The effect after applying the "Lighten Edge" filter |
3. Execute the "Image→Adjustment→Hue/Saturation" command, check the "Colorization" checkbox in the "Hue/Saturation" dialog box, set the "Saturation" to 50, and keep the others as default. Then execute the "Filter→Pixel→Mosaic" command to apply a mosaic filter to the beach, and set the "Cell Size" to 18 in the "Mosaic" dialog box. The effect is shown in Figure 2.
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| Figure 2 Apply the "mosaic" filter |
4. Apply the "Lighten Edges" filter to the image again, and in the "Lighten Edges" dialog box set the "Edge Width" to 14, the "Edge Brightness" to 10, and the "Smoothness" to 1. At this time, the image has produced a maze effect. Finally, by executing the "Image→Adjustment→Hue/Saturation" command, the color of the maze is adjusted to complete the production. The effect is shown in Figure 3.
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| Figure 3 Stone text effect |