simple wood-cut wave lines tutorial

[vorropohaiah]

So, Lezales asked me how I got the coast effects in my current WIP thread, A Political Map Korachan and its environs following the Events of the Great War...WIP (yes, long name, it’s a period thing!) so I thought I’d work up a quick wip for this.

1) Use a white base map. On a new layer on top draw the coastline in a hard black pencil tool. The land part was filled in with black to create a good contrast
step1.jpg

2) Select the land and create a new layer (called land) and fill the selection white. Add an outer glow layer style, with the following settings, using a nice blue colour. Add a stroke layer style with the following settings using the same blue.
layerstyle.JPGstrokestyle.JPG
step2.jpg

3) add a new layer and fill it with a striped pattern and add a layer mask, hiding the land area.
step3.jpg

4) You’re done!

obviously you can tinker with the outer glow settings to get somthing more to your liking, as well as rasterising the wave lines and blurring and/or distorting them

[priggs]

I love old map styles. This is cool that you achieved this beautiful effect digitally. Is this Photoshop?

[vorropohaiah]

I love old map styles. This is cool that you achieved this beautiful effect digitally. Is this Photoshop?

yep, though im sure it can be done with gimp, for instance

[Adolon]

I'd been wondering how to do this for a while. Thanks!

[vorropohaiah]

thanks should be simple enough to get done quite quickly

[Scot Harvest]

FREAKING BRILLIANT!

I took your TUT and applied it to my WIP and it came out good enough for a first try!

Thanks!

Pathagrian-Map-WEB.jpg

[eViLe_eAgLe]

Y'know, I actually made a bunch of dungeons using this same technique, though a bit differently. (Albeit color doesn't work very well for them.)
http://www.cartographersguild.com/fi...ngeon-map.html

[Scot Harvest]

Y'know, I actually made a bunch of dungeons using this same technique, albeit a bit differently. (Albeit color doesn't work very well for them.)
http://www.cartographersguild.com/fi...ngeon-map.html

Why not make the orignal in color?!?

[RobA]

To complete this reference, here are a number of other tutorials posted on the wood-cut style (though you'd have to have been here a while to remember them!):

http://www.cartographersguild.com/ge...html#post97800
http://www.cartographersguild.com/tu....html#post9033
http://www.cartographersguild.com/tu...tml#post193149

and S. John Ross' (Ghalev here) instructions courtesy of the internet archive: Blue Lamp Road: Uresia

-Rob A>

[Oddly Otter]

Oh wow this is an awesome technique and yet so simple! I'm going to have to try it when I have the time.