Corellia World Map in GIMP

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Hi everyone, I have been lingering around these forums for a little while admiring others' work and reading through some excellent tutorials and have finally found a bit of time to try my own hand at creating a map. I am still in the early stages, mostly because I get a little bit into the process and then decide that my effort is not good enough and I should start again. Which on the plus side has given me lots of practice at the first few stages of RobA's excellent tutorial.

Anyway, I'm going to post two pictures; one with the current state of the map and one with the underlying continental plates (to hopefully explain some strange geology). Please critique both, I need to figure out how to improve this.

500px - Corellia v1.1 tectonics.png
5000px - Corellia v1.1 tectonics.png

Now the "strange geology" I mentioned is the small plate which is in the middle of the largest continent. The two larger plates are pushing into it from either side, eventually destroying it I would imagine. I thought in this region there would be mountains on the leading edge of the two larger continents and the land on the smaller plate could be lowlands. Does this make sense?

500px - Corellia v1.1.png
5000px - Corellia v1.1.png

Another small question I have is regarding GIMP; I want to have the edge of the map running down the ocean which is currently to the east of the main continent. I have tried cutting a strip off the right hand side, inverting selection and moving the main body of the map over to the right and then pasting the other section back at the left hand side, but it won't let me paste. There is a broken yellow line down what is currently the left edge of the map and nothing shows up beyond that point. Can anyone advise me how to fix that?

Any and all advice is welcome, thanks for your time.

[Josiah VE]

Nice start! Don't know much about geology so I don't know if it makes sense or not..

As for GIMP, I'm not quite sure I know what you mean.

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Nice start! Don't know much about geology so I don't know if it makes sense or not..

As for GIMP, I'm not quite sure I know what you mean.

Ha! Yeah, when I was writing that bit I was thinking "does this actually make any sense?"

I don't know the correct terminology, which makes explanation difficult. If I was at my computer I could take screenshots, but as it stands I'll try to muddle through with words.

If you use the rectangle select tool to select a whole strip down the side of the map and cut it, then invert the selection you end up with a rectangular selection encompassing the rest of the map. You then use the Move tool to drag this to the right, all the way to the right hand edge. At this stage if I Select None I still find there is a broken yellow line down what had been the left border of the selection. It's no longer at the edge of the canvas, but I can't get GIMP to draw anything to the left of this line.

Does that make sense? If not I could take some screenshots tomorrow.

[johnvanvliet]

i am guessing you are referring to this bit here - in the center in the screenshot
-- i ran a 2500 px offset
/ layer / transform / offset




this will take a bit of work
but you can use the "clone" , "Air-brush" and "heal" tools

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Thank you! That should make this a tad easier.


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