[Award Winner] Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional RPG Map

[Korash]

Did you put the layer mode to "Overlay" instead of "Normal"?

[Jaqen Hagar]

I have seareched, and I don't have find how to make this. Please explain me how to proceed.

[NitzanLeo]

Hi, guys, I'm very new to GIMP, this is literally the first thing I'm trying, and I'm having quite a bit of trouble in some of the earlier steps of this tutorial, and I'd be very happy if someone could lend me a hand with this.

In the step of adding the layer called 'land mask', with the inverting of the selection, I've had two problems. First, I just couldn't for some reason fill the selection of the land with white. I kept dragging the colour into the selection or trying to use the bucket fill tool to do so, but it didn't do a thing. Second, I didn't particularly understand what it meant to make a black layer. Just making a new layer and filling it with black?

[mankring]

hi everybody! Amazing tutorial thanks! Btw, i can only DL 2 pdf: the one starting at PART3 and the other starting at PART4. Is the pdf containing PART1 and 2 available? bye and ty for your help.

[JefBT]

This is a great tutorial, and I'm trying to follow it. I'm posting my first try, without labels yet.
I followed the mountains and forests "linked" tutorials. Also awesome.

RegionalMapGIMP.png

Again, thank you for this tutorial.

[JefBT]

And I did another map, using this (and some other) tutorial.

I like the results.

Thi maps will be the starting region of my next RPG. These are the middle-east lands of the Cobalt Valley.

And one more time: thank you for this amazing tutorial!

Here is the finished version:

RegiaoInicial.png

And here I simply put a paper texture above the map, and set the blend mode to divide. I got a nice winter map.

RegiaoInicial_Inverno-SemLocais.png

[Ray]

This is a great tutorial, and I'm trying to follow it. I'm posting my first try, without labels yet.
I followed the mountains and forests "linked" tutorials. Also awesome.

RegionalMapGIMP.png

Again, thank you for this tutorial.

Very nice for 1st try. How much time did it take?

[ttrush]

I can not get the transparent selected to fill with white! Is there something I'm missing?

[RPMiller]

Select the other objects then invert the selection to select the transparent.

[ttrush]

Still not working :/ Also when I normalize the image, a hue of green is present. I cannot figure it out. I use bucket fill in the selected transparent area to make it white but it stays transparent.