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Creating random continents - Photoshop tutorial

This tutorial explains how to create random terrain in Photoshop - you can easily make your own continents in a minute

Category: Photoshop tutorials > Textures & Tiles - Difficulty:

Just imagine if you could create the irregular shapes of continents on your own. Let's create our OWN WORLD.

Step 1

Create a new photoshop document with background color as black.Add a rectangle shape with color "b3b3b0". Add a "layer mask" to this new layer.

Step 2

Set the foreground color to black and background color to white.Select filter->render->clouds.

We can get different shapes of continents on earth by applying the clouds filter many times.(like apply the clouds 4 or 5 times for this rectangle).The output will be as below.

Step 3

Select the option filters->sketch->plaster.Set the values in this window as shown below.

Check out the continents tat you ve created. Wow. Even we can become GOD :-). The main idea is to apply the clouds as many times as possible and then apply plaster filter so that you get different patterns of continents. This could be useful to create random terrain for your game, for example