Hmmm, might be that your monitor is set up differently than mine but no matter there's an easy fix. Just grab the large airbrush tool, turn the opacity down to 5-10% and paint over the lightest/darkest areas with black/white on the layer before running the lighting effects.
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I am having an issue at Step 21 and 22. I Have just my land mass with my ocean gone (transparent white and grey boxes). The land mass has the gradient and everything. But when I look at the picture in Step 22, my land mass doesnt show the mountains and hills or anything, it is just a flat image. I've tried changing the order of the layers, but no go. Where might I have gone wrong?
Oh, and I am using CS5 is that makes any difference.
Mine is calibrated (Spyder 3, Adobe RGB) but that might be of course. The difference is enormous however, I will try. That you recommend i did on my first try (still with rugged coastlines), here it is:Originally Posted by Ascension
continent1.jpg
It is and will remain unfinished, because of some issues I started over again. I think i'll need to some other "mountain" technique, they're not bad but don't make me too happy on the other hand. Of course, this is the best "regional map" i've created using photoshop.
BTW: What actually means "WIP"?
Gimme a full screenshot so that I can see your layer palette.
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)
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Untitled-3.jpg
Here it is.
Now, I can bring my Mountains (which I have already done step 23 & 24 with) to the top and they will show through the base, but the rest of the layers completely overpower the base unless I lower the opacity. Could this just be that I am rushing the gun (in that I will be getting rid of the ocean in the hills and land layers in a later step)? I dunno, since it seems like in the Step 22 pic that you are showing the hills and land layers as well as the mountains layer through the base layer.
Last edited by verdilak; 09-15-2010 at 07:03 PM.
Looks fine so far except for the river that goes to two oceans (just chop out the middle so that you get two rivers each going to a different ocean) and the lake that goes to two oceans (same thing). As to the mtns, the easiest thing to do is to just duplicate the mtns layer...it sort of beefs them up a bit.
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)
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Work In Progress...which is pretty much EVERY map I'll ever make....
I am the breath of Dragons...The Song of Mountains...The Stories of Rivers....The Heart of Cities.... I am A Cartographer....
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aaaah...BINGO :-)
Fixed rivers (thanks for catching that) w/ stronger, more pronounced mountains, and one with the sat mountains from a different tut of yours.continent_rivers.jpg continent1_sat.jpg
Yeah, I know my mountains aren't the best but the main thing is that you learn a simple technique that has a lot of variables to it. I teach you how to walk but it's up to you to learn how to run, so to speak. What that means is that you have some basic knowledge and you can now take that and try a bunch of different stuff to produce new and interesting things. If you never go beyond this then, cool - you have a nice lil map; but if you like to experiment (like I do) then you can do all sorts of things and have some fun.
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
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