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As noted in the New Members area, I am new to cartography, but am working on a fairly large and elaborate set of maps and pieces for a complex fantasy world of my design. Many years ago, I started to put a map like this together, by brute force: I scanned a set of maps from the Atlas of Imaginary Places (all one style, and nice), removed all the place names and some other elements, and then glued them together. That was fine, but pretty crude, and lots of things weren't just as I wanted them. Well ...
My first map: I make it using Ascension's Atlas Tutorial in Gimp. Remains to be done: Rivers and Countries. Felimage too; not installed it because I could not. (It is the first time I write in English, please be patient.)
Updated 04-15-2012 at 03:17 AM by Mustak
I got to the end of Pt. 2 of RobA's tutorial, "Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional RPG Map" but I wasn't happy with how the mountains looked. I found another tutorial by RobA, "Simple Mountains in GIMP" and decided to use that technique instead. Here is my first pass at the alternate technique: I thought the mountains turned out pretty good, though there was a strange inverted ridge around the mountains that I ...
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