[Award Winner] My atlas style in PS

[Ascension]

Lemme know if you have any problems

[J0kk3]

Lemme know if you have any problems

I tried the "borders-part" of this tutorial to get some nice-looking borders on my map, but after all that marking and deleting...nothing! What gives? I dont know how to explain more, I did all the steps and I filled each one with white. Didnt want different colors, but nothings there when i link and merge.

I'd apreciate any help, any atall.
Thanks

[Chadwick]

Just joined up and saw this tutorial and your result looked amazing so I figured I'd give it a go as my first map ^^. The tutorial was extremely easy to follow however I had a bit of a problem that I can't figure out. My brush seems to have left quite a few marks throughout the map and I was wondering if you knew how to avoid this problem.

[Ascension]

Looks great!...other than those strokes It looks like you have the brush properties set to something other than normal. First click on the brush tool, then at the top you will see the word "Mode" in the box next to that, make sure it says Normal and not something like multiply or difference. It could be that you did the airbrushing on it's own layer and never merged it down onto the clouds layer, thus you're getting some artifacts from that. If that's not it lemme know and I'll see if I can replicate this effect (might take me a while since I'll be experimenting a lot to find the needle in the haystack).

[Chadwick]

It looks like that fixed it, I had it set to normal before but I had an airbrush button pressed. I just tried again with the airbrush button not on and it didn't leave the marks as far as I can tell with just doing up to the land step. ^^

Thanks a ton

[Ascension]

No prob, man. Just here to help

[Chadwick]

I've gone through the tutorial a few more times and the brush strokes still seem to show up. They make their appearance after copying "Ocean" and making "Land". When I apply the lighting affect they become very prominent. I thought it would just be me clicking int he same spot a few times when trying to get my land mass how I want it but it seems even long held down brush strokes create the problem.

Any ideas?

[Ascension]

All right, got it. After much experimenting I finally got it just like what you show. What I did was to take a hard round brush tip, then scale it up to 300...when I then paint it leaves the rings. What you need is the airbrush tip and not a hard round tip set to airbrush in the brush control panel. Use the Airbrush Soft Round 300 tip (or 100 or whatever). Just clicking on the airbrush button in the brush control panel does not give it an airbrush quality.

[Chadwick]

Ah it must have been the hard round that was doing it to me because I tried it with airbrush both on and off. Thanks a ton Ascension ^^ Really appreciate you taking the time to help me out.

--edit--

That was definitely it ^^ Just went through and did one that's much better I think. I also realized I had the lighting for the hills set up incorrectly and the color is much better this time around.

[Ascension]

Now yer cookin, looks great. Glad I could actually find the problem and fix it and help someone out following my lead...I'd hate to lead someone down the wrong path. Good luck, mate, and keep up the nice work.