Don't use the Layer menu at the top...use the cursive f on the layer stack. The other thing is I don't know what sort of options you have with Elements...all I know is that you're limited with that since it doesn't have all of the options available, just some basic ones.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for the prompt reply. I'm off to give that a try and I'll let you know how I get on (or perhaps, more likely, be back with more questions!Originally Posted by Ascension
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Tom (Barbierossa)
Hehe, my first post after 10 months of lurking.
I don't know if this has been asked before... but I've made 3 maps using this guide, and in none of them, the mountains look as good as in this tutorial. In the step where you make the color overlay and then start removing mountains, the result is nothing like the example image. The mountains are dark and ugly, whereas the guide shows them to be lightly brown and bright on top.
As a comparison, here's the guide image:
And here's what my best attempts create, just after the part where you've added bevel&emboss and the color overlay:
What am I doing wrong? The only parts where I've altered from the guide is when I made the entire project 4000x4000 and edited the order of the gradient.
You have to delete the darks before the erasing part as in step 23: "Click on the 'mountains' layer. Make sure that black is the foreground color then Select > Color range = use black with a fuzziness of 200. Hit the delete key then deselect. This erases the darker grays." That will take out those dark and garish blacks and leave you with the lighter, pretty colors.
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
Thanks for the quick reply! I was thinking that the problem might have been that part, since I didn't completely understand it. "Use black". Black as a foreground color or some weird list object somewhere? Here's what I used, using the default colors (black as foreground color):
understood.png
Looks ok to me so long as you're on the mountains layer then hit the delete key (otherwise you delete the blacks from some other layer).
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
Yes, I managed to do it! Thank you!
When I tried it again, it removed the dark areas, but the remaining parts looked more like bubbles. I'll make a new one to see if I can avoid the problem.
No prob, man.
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
I haven't had any sleep tonight so let me read this sometime this afternoon and get back to you, otherwise I'm liable to make a mush of things trying to explain
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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