I'm a little confused. At a later step you say that the noise layer should be moved beneath the land layer. Why is that?Originally Posted by Ascension
I didn't want to use plug-ins, but thanks for the adivce, will check it out ^^ In the meantime, I used a RGB Noise filter and set it on a low opacity to multiply.
Sorry for the double post, but I finished my first map! I made it completly in Gimp. If anyone is interested in a Gimp converted tutorial, I can post it, too, I think.
I hope, the upload of the attachment was a success
It is not so nice as the photoshop outcome but close enough for my first try.
Hope you like it ^^
herbstinseln.jpg
Last edited by Candacis; 04-26-2011 at 04:31 PM.
Looks good, man. You can tone down the bright colors just by reducing opacity but otherwise, nice.
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Dear Ascension, I got a tiny question for you.
"Grab a big airbrush, set the flow to 10%, and use black to fill in the ocean and white for the land. "
I use Photoshop CS5 and I can only find two Airbrushes:
Airbrush 75 Tilt Size and Angle
Airbrush Dual Brush Soft Round 45
Inexperience user here and I just wonder which of these two I should pick, or does this Tutorial work with both?
Thanks in advance.
Paper Map (Final, Adjusted Mileage).jpg
I wanted to thank you for this tutorial Ascension. I finally completed my rendition of Anub'Volthrak, the desert continent my first book is centered around. Hopefully I'll be published soon, it's with an editor! Anyway I wanted to know if you have any problem with me possibly using this image (via your tutorial) in my book.
Last edited by LordNightwinter; 09-22-2011 at 02:59 PM.
No problem at all, man. It's your world so you own it - I just teach how to make it. For a book, though, they may want you to use black and white. Easy fix there, just delete the color layers.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Yeah I'm a pretty good hand at Photoshop so that won't be a problem.
It's a lovely tutorial and I really like some of the tricks, but those pencilly rivers ... wouldn't it help to put some anti-aliasing on them? You could just start out and make the map at, say, 600 dps instead (so, about double the dimensions, say 4000 x 4000 px) and then resize for web display. That way you wouldn't get the flat lines and all.
Hey Ascension, any chance of putting this into a Word document or PDF? If you don't have the time I might be able to do it, but I have a lot of other projects in the queue right now (argh) so I was hoping you might have already planned to do it?
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@Wisemoon, don't know if you saw this or not, but Candacis translated Ascension's tutorial to GIMP in pdf format. Here's the link.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
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