Hm. Personally I prefer the first one, although it depends a bit on the style of the map. The second one is a bit too mechanical and polished for me.
Hm. Personally I prefer the first one, although it depends a bit on the style of the map. The second one is a bit too mechanical and polished for me.
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Actually that's what I was going for. The Ubora Project is laid out as if geographers and historians were cronicaling the history of their world from a modern point of view.
Ok Here is an island just off the coast. I'm still not sure of the shading. One of the problems, in my eyes, is that the mountains look fuzzy and not well defined. Next up will be rivers . As the island is not that big and lots of rough areas I'm thinking of short to the coast rivers with a few interior rivers and lakes. At this scale I'm only going to show main rivers.
If you have your shading on a separate layer then duplicate it and maybe that will help. Personally, I think it looks fine...just like a topo map should.
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For my maps I'm using a mix of HansonRob's and Creating Mountains and other terrains in Photoshop by Pasi. Using my own settings to create the mountains at this scale. The one thing I have had problems with is getting the map to show proper erosion. So I experimented and came up with an alteration to Pasi's idea. I make a new layer to go above all the mountain layers then go to Bevel and Emboss and alter the gloss contour. I go into the contour and just reverse the settings (see pic #1). Then change the direction setting from up to down. Then go into the contour sub-setting and do the same (see pic #2).
I then did a test on my map. Here it is for your consideration. I need to experiment a bit on my technique and look at a few more real world topo maps to get it just right.
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