[Award Winner] Battlemaps in Photoshop

[YourGuts]

Hey madcowchef, thanks so much for this tutorial, it's been a huge help and enabled me to get a foot in the door and start making my own battle maps. With a few extra tidbits from around the web, here's what I've managed so far.

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But after stumbling across your Deviantart tiles, your caves really impressed me. And I'd love to know how I'd get started making my own. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[madcowchef]

Nicely grungy! I'll see about putting together something on cavern making, but it might be a bit before I have time.

[madcowchef]

You aren't far off really. You textures are a bit close to each other so its hiding the contrast a bit more than it should. I'd try substituting a couple different textures to see if you can find some that show off your work a bit more (you can drag your layer mask right onto a new layer and then just hide the previous one). Picking good textures is a lot of trail and error when you're getting started.

[madrileen]

Thanks for the advice, I'll get right on that!

[Mikael Lidberg]

Amazing tutorial, thnaxs alot for this. Realy inspiring.

[madcowchef]

@Sitrane: lots of folks are using free items from the web. There is also a new tree rendering option within Photoshop that with some creative cutting and pasting can make a half descent top down tree I hear tell.

@Lichlark: Looks great, I'm not in your game and I'm already dreading that place.

[Sitrane]

@Sitrane: lots of folks are using free items from the web. There is also a new tree rendering option within Photoshop that with some creative cutting and pasting can make a half descent top down tree I hear tell.

@Lichlark: Looks great, I'm not in your game and I'm already dreading that place.

@madcowchef That tree tip is amazing! I use Photoshop DAILY in my job and I had no idea that was there. I will definitely be playing around with that.

[CredePendrel]

Afternoon all!

Long time lurker, first time post. I wanted to share my first attempt at madcowchef's Award Winning Tutorial "Battlemaps in Photoshop". It DEFINITELY needs some work and further adjustment but I am actually somewhat happy with the results so far!.

I am not happy with the wall results; but there are going to the first update I try and make. *I had to compress the images a lot to get them to post. I hope they are clear enough!*

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[CredePendrel]

Here is my attempt at the water effects!! Coming along nicely

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[Cassio]

Here is my attempt at the water effects!! Coming along nicely

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How did you do your river banks? The way the coast transitions is so clean!