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Ill check this out later.. But, it looks nice ramah!
Quick Coastlines Tutorial
Hey there,
This is just a very quick tutorial on how to get some crunchy coastlines without having to mess around with layers and filters. It simply involves using a brush with some angle/size/scatter variation set and preferably a little variation in the brush shape. I'm including two basic brush shapes with this post at the bottom. They are both pretty similar to each other but subtly different. I use Photoshop but hopefully this will be relevant to Gimp too...
Here are the steps...
1) Download and install the included brushes in your brush directory.
2) Open up PS and your map.
3) Select one of the new brushes.
4) Draw.
5) Job done.
And here's a few images of a landmass shape I just made. Took me less than 2 minutes in total. You can get better results than this if you take the time but I'm off to watch a film in 10 minutes so I'm in a rush.
Coastline_1.jpg
First image was me roughing in a large area with the brush set at 35 pixels.
Coastline_2.jpg
2nd image I lowered brush size down to 20 and added a few finer sections.
Coastline_3.jpg
3rd image I lowered brush again to 10 pixels and added some even finer sections.
Coastline_4.jpg
4th image I changed to white and cut away some sections to give some more variation.
Like I say, this was done very quickly. I might spend some time tomorrow and refine this post.
Hopefully this will be helpful to someone. Let me know if so.
Here are the brushes... Coastline Brushes.zip
EDIT: Oh, and if anyone finds this useful and refines/makes new brushes that work well with this then it would be cool if you post them up in this thread for others to use.
Last edited by Ramah; 08-07-2011 at 06:13 PM.
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Ill check this out later.. But, it looks nice ramah!
That's an awesome idea! Glad I thought of it!!
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Brushes downloaded, Thanks Ramah! This is kind of how I do my coastlines now in Serif Drawplus.
(threadjack)Originally Posted by ravells
Ravs-
can you share your Serif brush? I'm still getting familiar with the program...
-Rob A>
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Cool beans! Nice job Ramah, and thx for sharing.
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@ RobA: It's one which ships with the program - You will find it under the 'nature' folder and it's called 'fog'. The way I use it is to draw a rough coastline shape using the pencil tool, filled with black. Use the fog brush as an outline and use the pressure tab to make it larger / smaller along the circumference of the shape. Convert the shape into a bitmap (higher res = better crinkles), and then convert that into curves. Example attached.
(apologies to Ramah for the Jack)
Last edited by ravells; 08-12-2011 at 07:18 AM.
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