How to mix up your landscapes in Adobe Photoshop – N-Photo 156 video tutorial

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The Landscape Mixer tool is one of Adobe Photoshop’s new range of filters that uses artificial intelligence to automatically alter your photos. This filter takes elements from other landscape photos and mixes them in with yours. Here, the filter has mixed in a sunset mood from another photo and added a long exposure look to the sea to give the choppy waters a misty quality.

Like most automated AI tools, the results are impressive yet far from perfect. The leap in technology here is truly staggering; the ability to automatically recognize the different parts of a photo and then splice
in another landscape is genuinely impressive. However, while marvelling at the technology, you’re also likely to notice plenty of dodgy patches. Aside from the image looking very low res and low quality afterwards, the effect can have an adverse effect on important details. 

Here, the application has changed the rock formations that are integral to the scene. But with a few simple layer skills, it’s easy to take the best parts from the filter effect and mix them in with manual enhancements of your own to create an improved image.

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James Paterson

The lead technique writer on Digital Camera MagazinePhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine and N-Photo: The Nikon Magazine, James is a fantastic general practice photographer with an enviable array of skills across every genre of photography. 

Whether it's flash photography techniques like stroboscopic portraits, astrophotography projects like photographing the Northern Lights, or turning sound into art by making paint dance on a set of speakers, James' tutorials and projects are as creative as they are enjoyable. 

He's also a wizard at the dark arts of Photoshop, Lightroom and Affinity Photo, and is capable of some genuine black magic in the digital darkroom, making him one of the leading authorities on photo editing software and techniques.