Reply With QuoteHere is my next version, I've worked on the colors for the land and worked in non-green areas on the map. I'm still not happy with the rivers, but wanted to put this up for comments on the land coloring, thanks.
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Great work! I'm particularly impressed by the realistic way the land gets stretched/curved near the pole. That's tough to pull off, and you've done so beautifully. As far as the rivers go, try taking your first version and changing the layer mode around. Multiply, grain merge and hard light are all modes that come out still noticeable, but not eye-popping.
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Here is my next version, I've worked on the colors for the land and worked in non-green areas on the map. I'm still not happy with the rivers, but wanted to put this up for comments on the land coloring, thanks.
ValConB2.jpg
Touched up land coloring a bit here, and then did a bump on the rivers to give them a little bit of definition.
ValConB3.jpg
Last edited by Torius; 06-12-2010 at 01:27 AM.
still feel the rivers are a bit dampend... I would like them to "shine" a bit more - but that's my opinion
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Worked some more on the land colors again, and the rivers. Here is latest version:
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All I can say is that you might want to go with thinner rivers since this is at continental scale...unless they're are titanic rivers, then it's cool.
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I agree Ascension and will have to rework the rivers to be thinner.
What size do folks usually create their continental maps with?
This is roughly 1/4 of the overall world map and I used 4000 x 2000 for the size. Is that good?
1 or 2 pixel solid line (don't cut out the land to show the ocean underneath, just make the line a dark or medium blue or teal).
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It's been a while since I last posted an update, but now is a good time. I've been busy with a lot of different elements in this map. I have reworked some of the colors and cleaned up a lot of the remnants that had crept in over time in this version. Redid the Rivers as suggested, where this is a continent, they were just too massive before.
That looks really outstanding. The rivers look much better now (easy to see, but not overpowering), and the color scheme is great. Repped.
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