Crazy Landscapes
Create a new image, any size, but something about 400 x 400
pixels is good to get an idea of the effect. Using the Airbrush
tool and a sizeable brush (see pics) create some random 'mess'
on the canvas. Use a couple of colours, something like what I've
done below. Don't worry it won't end up anything like this.
Now save the file, say, on the desktop, and call it
something like tempfile.psd. This is just going to be used to do
a displacement filter next.
From the Filter menu again select Distort followed by
displace. Set the Horizontal and Vertical scales at 3. Select
Stretch to Fit and Wrap around. Click ok and then for the
displacement map file select the file that you saved in step 2.
Repeat the filter three more time by selecting the Filter
menu and then Displace, or Ctrl+F. The image should be starting
to distort a little.
Save the current image to the tempfile.psd again that was
created in step 2. Ctrl+S will do this. This will update the
displacement map with the current image. Now repeat the Displace
filter with Ctrl+F. Do the filter two more times, three
times in total.
Now we need to repeat these two functions to keep
building on the effect. Use Ctrl+F several times to keep repeating
the Displace filter and then update the Displacement map by saving
the file again (Ctrl+S).
Select the Image menu followed by Adjust and then
Auto Levels, or use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+L. This will give the
colours a different look. Now repeat the Ctrl+F and Ctrl+S functions
as done in steps 3 to 5. This will end up with a nice crazy
landscape as promised.
Variations can be created by adding additional
airbrush marks in between steps 3 to 5. Also varing the frequency of
Filter (Ctrl+F) and Saving (Ctrl+S) will produce different results.
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