[Award Winner] Hand-Drawn Mapping (for the Artistically Challenged)

[RigoIII]

Awesome tutorial, I will try it soon

[mmitrovich]

Thanks for this awesome tutorial!

My first attempt:
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-Mike Mitrovich
www.legacyoffun.com
www.youtube.com/legacyoffun

[akaddk]

OK, I think I now know why I'm having such difficulty with this tutorial. It's out-dated. The GIMP I'm using and the version this tutorial is referring to seem to have different setups and interfaces. There are things I'm looking for which simply don't exist.

[The Arquido]

I have a slight issue. I started by importing a picture of the shape of my continent as a layer, then I outlined it and removed the original layer since I no longer needed it. My outline layer is transparent though, so I see the outline and the grid behind it but in the tutorial the picture showing their map is solid. This is at the step where you add a mountain layer, hill layer etc. I'm not sure if I should be working in a transparent layer.

[LeoFromBR]

Great tutorial!

[xy_]

Nice work, thanks for the tute!

[Jarlhen]

Great tutorial, thanks a lot! Some things didn't work for me. For instance the rivers and the second sea color layer. Plus there was some issue with mask layers, probably because I don't quite understand how they work Took me a day just to figure out how to make the colors work on account of the masks making everything vanish. First map I've made in years and years, it's rough and unfinished but it'll serve its current purpose. Thanks for the help!

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[eldrad]

Thanks for the tutorial! It was very nicely explained and easily followed. Kudos to you

[Easyworld_]

So I battled through the tutorial (I've never used any imaging software before, so... that was fun) and I think I've screwed up a few bits, especially with the colouring, but hey, it was fun?! Tutorial was incredibly helpful.

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[daxdeathstrike]

Great tutorial! This really helped.