[Award Winner] Antique-style maps in Photoshop

[mrrkyl]

Looks like you've done a nice job and Tear's mountains look pretty cool here - almost like a shaded relief map. I have no idea what pattern set the pattern is in, my brain is getting old. I know I made my own, various sizes and scales, so you can always do that but here's the one I used for this - it's 5 x 5 pixels (very small).

Thanks for the input and example; I should get some practice creating my own patterns so why not start now? I was trying to use Tear's mountains to illustrate the hundreds of tiny lines used on this map but I can see them working as shaded relief.

[Katto]

You can generate different stripe patterns here for use in PS:

http://www.stripegenerator.com/

[mrrkyl]

Nice! Thank you for the link.

[Fallout]

Hi, I'm going through the tutorial right now. I'm at the part where you add the pattern overlay to the countries but I can't seem to find the one with the diagonal lines...checked every set of patterns and can't find it. Also, the borders on my country have no inner glow. How do I get it so that country borders have the inner glow? Any idea where I went wrong?

[Ascension]

As for the pattern, it's there in post #112, any white between borders is because you need to leave the initial black line (it should be a 1 pixel wide line and therefore almost unnoticeable), inner glows = no...should be a full solid color that is then selected, contracted (say 10 pixels), feathered (10 pixels), and the middle is deleted leaving a glowlike appearance.

[Fallout]

My gradient overlay is not showing up very well for the ocean. I can't see the blue/pink come through at all. Possibly a layer problem? I have it within the "Main Map" folder which is in the order of: Land, Noise, Ocean, White.

[Ascension]

Most likely. Check the earlier steps to see what the layer style is so that you can apply it to the dots.

[TheMarcus7]

I'm not finding it. What layer style can one paste that puts an n pixel stroke around an object and knocks the object out at the same time?

.TM7

[Coyotemax]

If you put the stroke, that one is obvious. the other one is not so much - look up near the top of the layer palette and look for the Fill percentage - default is 100% so it's completely opaque. Changing this value changes the opacity of the object on the layer, so if you set it to 0% it will turn the object transparent without affecting the layer style.

that setting will copy and paste as part of the overall layer style.

[TheMarcus7]

That did it! Thanks CM! Thats a neat trick. I'd have never figured that out on my own...

.TM7