Build a stone wall with Photoshop

Red brick walls in Photoshop before how to make our column has been an article introduction (related article 1, related article 2). Here we introduce a method of making stone walls.

1. Create a new 500*500 pixel document with the foreground and background colors set to black and white respectively. Open the channel panel, click the "Create New channel" button under the channel panel, create a new channel, and name it "shape" (Figure 01). Select Filter > Texture > Stained glass, apply stained glass filter, parameter settings as shown in Figure 02. The effect is shown in Figure 03.

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2. Apply "filter > Art effects > Clips" 2 times, parameter settings are shown in Figure 04.

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The effect is shown in Figure 05.

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3. Hold down the CTRL key and click the "shape" channel to load the channel as a selection. Back to the layers panel, create a new layer, named "Cement", choose the paint bucket tool, optional color, to fill the selection color. (Figure 06)

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4. Keep the selection in step, create a new layer, name "Stone 1", select a selection (Ctrl+shift+i), and choose a color to fill the selections (preferably not in the same color as in the previous step). Feather the selection by 5 pixels (menu "Selection > Feather", shortcut key Ctrl+alt+d), as shown in Figure 07.

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