[Award Winner] Creating Realistic Coastlines

[Steel General]

That looks like the Brush Strokes - Spatter filter in PS.

Didn't even think about that...

[RobA]

That looks like the Brush Strokes - Spatter filter in PS.

Looks similar (from a quick google search). Spatter looks clumpier, though that could be a result of the smoothness setting.

-Rob A>

[Sinastir]

Thanks for the tutorial! I am new to this all (including PS) and I found this easy and very helpful!

[Gallifreyan]

Thanks OldGuy for this fantastic tutorial, it helped me a LOT. And thanks RobA for adapting this tut to GIMP.

You can see my WIP thread over here.

[Midgardsormr]

Ok, I know I spent too much time playing video games when I was a kid, but is that the map from Dragon Warrior?

[Sharpe]

lol, yeah.

Here's an old version that I've re-done several times since then:

I tried again to faithfully recreate the 1986 Dragon Warrior 1 map and think I've gotten somewhere this time.

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This is with the original map at 10% opacity so you can see just how surprisingly close it is to the original:
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Time to start in on the mountains... I'll place them reminiscent of the Nintendo map, without sacrificing too much realism.

[Vandy]

Hello, All.

I've linked the "Creating Realistic Coastlines" tutorial by OldGuy and PDFized by jetmore.

The link can be found in the Tutorials in PDF Format thread on Page 1 and in the "Photoshop-Related Tutorials" section of Post 2.

Enjoy.

Regards,

Vandy

[d4saken1]

Here is what I did with your tutorial and Chucks Photoshop Mapping Tutorial (Just using difference clouds and thresh hold) On the making a realistic coastline, I kept my white land mass layer on top and the black below and then:

* Filter | Noise | Add Noise (gaussian, monochromatic, set to 100).
* Filter | Blur |Gaussian Blur (set to 2).
* Merge the layer onto the black layer
* Select Magic Wand Tool, click in the black it will give a slight buffer around the area you intend for your land mass.

Then I inverted and then inverse and used a brush to paint in the inverse selection with white.

And that comes out to the picture below.



Its larger just had to use photobucket which resized it.

Just thought id share this info i stumbled on while using this tutorial.

[Thesslian]

Thanks. This was extremely helpful. I was reading about a technique for doing this using cloud filters and I was dreading doing it like that. I set this up as an action in photoshop and now I can rapidly erode the landscape. Doing it a lot makes spiffy little islands along the mainland. Very cool.

[Klaus van der Kroft]

Excellent!

I had been unsuccessfully experimenting to get something like this working on some scanned map sillouettes, and your guide worked wonders.

You have my thanks, good sir!