Ascension's Atlas Style Tutorial - Revised Presentation + Actions

[Sierro]

Hiya,

I'm having a problem with the action "Atlas 1 - Step 7". After I run this action, there seems to be a sort of vignette being applied somewhere. I've attached a picture showing what I mean.

Vignette.jpg

[justkae]

Hiya,

I'm having a problem with the action "Atlas 1 - Step 7". After I run this action, there seems to be a sort of vignette being applied somewhere. I've attached a picture showing what I mean.

Vignette.jpg

have a look at your hills layer/other cloud-based layers - it looks like the corners are really dark.

[godfatherbrak]

So I've made one of these before but I've run into some problems on some new maps.

One of them I've gotten to the borders phase and it's all been fine except for making the actual borders. I've got the lines, I've snipped them off from the ocean. However, when I try to select a country I've set aside, it gets the entire island. (The world is made up of a lot of closely interconnected islands, basically.) It doesn't seem to identify that I've formed a border. It ignores the line I've drawn and just chooses the whole island.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Welleth]

So I've made one of these before but I've run into some problems on some new maps.

One of them I've gotten to the borders phase and it's all been fine except for making the actual borders. I've got the lines, I've snipped them off from the ocean. However, when I try to select a country I've set aside, it gets the entire island. (The world is made up of a lot of closely interconnected islands, basically.) It doesn't seem to identify that I've formed a border. It ignores the line I've drawn and just chooses the whole island.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hey GodfatherBrak did you ever find out how to fix that border problem? im at the something and i cant find a way to fix it.

[vikz]

I can't seem to see the link it the written instructions - If I am missing it, forgive me...... can you advise? many thanks

[Azélor]

I can't seem to see the link it the written instructions - If I am missing it, forgive me...... can you advise? many thanks

A link to what ?

[Bren McDonnall]

Hello cartographers, Having some frustrating fun with this tutorial so far. Part of it is that I'm running CS. Like the old Johnny Cash song about the Cadillacs, some of the bolt holes don't line up. Part of it is that my Photoshop career thus far is about nine hours, during which time my daughter took me out to eat, so there's a couple of hours of the nine that I wasn't actually doing PS.

I've worked around a couple of the issues, but I'm stuck hard on step 27. Between reading the comments on the Youtube page and this thread, I vaguely understand what's going on. In CS6, applying the lighting effects bakes in the color of the ocean layer. In previous versions, it does not. So, Both the Ocean and Ocean Adjust layers are showing monochrome thumbnails. It's at this point where everybody starts speaking what appears to be a foreign language.

ATM, I can't figure out how to bake the color into the ocean layer so that when I clear the layer styles on the Ocean Adjust layer, I don't end up with a monochrome image. I've seen a couple of workarounds on the Youtube page that I about half understand. Can anybody lay it out clear enough for a complete scrub to understand?

Thanks

[zeichen]

First of all, excellent tutorial. You have a very clear spoken voice. I am getting a little stuck though. I am not sure if it is my cs 3 version, or what but I have 2 main issues. First, in step 15 when I select color range it comes up as empty. I imagine that is because the layer is only a clouds layer with a layer style color overlay. So instead I used magic wand and selected anything that was black. However since this is a common step in the rest of the tutorial, I wonder if there is someway to fix this.

Second issue is in step 26 If I clear layer styles on the ocean adjust layer, it reverts back to just a black and white clouds layer. The layer style on it is the color?

Because you didn't indicate the reason for each step, I don't really know the goal. Are you trying to have 2-3 different widths for shading and height?

Thanks again for the tutorial and for any help you might be able to offer.

[Fieari]

I love the tutorial! I went through the manual version completely, but alas, my laptop crashed midsave near the end, and I lost the whole thing. Two whole days of work gone!

I figured this would be a good time to switch to the actionscript version to recreate my work (*sob*), but I'm getting the same problem some other people are... step 7 just isn't working right.



This looks absolutely nothing close to resembling what I had when doing it manually. The lighting is messed up, and the gradient is different too! What's going wrong? I'm using Photoshop CC, which I believe is the same as CS6.

Can anyone help? Is there something wrong with the script as uploaded, given that some others have expressed issues with this step as well?

[Eldresh]

I love the tutorial! I went through the manual version completely, but alas, my laptop crashed midsave near the end, and I lost the whole thing. Two whole days of work gone!

I figured this would be a good time to switch to the actionscript version to recreate my work (*sob*), but I'm getting the same problem some other people are... step 7 just isn't working right.

This looks absolutely nothing close to resembling what I had when doing it manually. The lighting is messed up, and the gradient is different too! What's going wrong? I'm using Photoshop CC, which I believe is the same as CS6.

Can anyone help? Is there something wrong with the script as uploaded, given that some others have expressed issues with this step as well?

I am getting exactly this problem and it has made the actions version of this completely useless to me. I'm using CS6 though. Can anyone please help?