[Award Winner] Create a non-destructive editable map in Photoshop

[redleg7]

I have a feeling that they only work with Windows - are you using a Mac?

Windows, but I think I figured it out.

All I did is add the EC directory as a plug-in directory.

I haven't tried it yet but at least I have the ability to choose an EC filter whereas before I didn't.

Thanks for the response, I think I'm fixed.

[redleg7]

Seems this is only a demo version, because I only have access to three things, jiggle isn't one of them.

[ravells]

Are you using the download from here: http://www.geocities.com/why2kspace/

That one has the jiggle filter enabled.

[Coyotemax]

I clicked on your link out of curiosity and got:
Sorry, Service Temporarily Unavailable.

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Additionally, a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


Whee!

[Steel General]

Hmmm...I tried a bit ago (~90 minutes previous to this post) and it worked just fine.

[redleg7]

Are you using the download from here: http://www.geocities.com/why2kspace/

That one has the jiggle filter enabled.

Affirmative that's the link.

[ravells]

That's odd, then I can't really help. I downloaded it to check it (a while back) and all the EyeCandy filters worked fine and without crippling.

[redleg7]

That's odd, then I can't really help. I downloaded it to check it (a while back) and all the EyeCandy filters worked fine and without crippling.

I tried reinstalling but no luck.

Thanks for trying.

[ravells]

As an alternative to the jiggle filter, try the ripple filter followed by the ocean ripple filter - the results are similar to jiggle and the filters are native to photoshop.

[manikin]

Thanks for an amazing tutorial! Once the basic principle is down, the whole process becomes very intuitive and flexible, it's great.

If you don't have access to the photoshop filters, I found it easiest to create a greyscale rippled / ocean rippled / blurred area, push it to 100% contrast and then select the white or black part - this gives you a bit of flexibility with where the edges of things are as well.

For the rivers, if you use a path with "simulate pressure" and make the path much longer than necessary you end up with a nice tapering effect (for those of us without a tablet).

Edit: A couple more variations - using clouds and an overlay colour has worked better for me than using a texture for the final 'binding' layer