In this tutorial, we’ll create a room full of gold bricks (or regular bricks depending on how you wish to colorize them). One might think at first that this is a silly tutorial; however, it does have some applications. The gold bricks could be used in collages and various artwork montages. Not to mention, it’s a fun tutorial to do, because it’s so easy.
1. Open up a new document in Photoshop. Set the canvas size to roughly 600×600 pixels.
2. Goto Filter > Render > Lighting Effects.
3. Use the shape handles to adjust the oval on the left side, so that the lighting looks similar to the illustration below:
4. Click OK to close out of the “Lighting Effects” box.
5. Goto Filter > Stylize > Extrude
6. When the extrude pop-up appears, change the values. See illustration below:
7. Click OK to close the pop-up. You should now have an image of bricks.
8. Last step is to color them. Goto Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the color sliders for “Yellow” under Shadows/Midtones/Highlites sections.
9. You should now have your room full of gold bricks.
