[Award Winner] Mosaic Tile Map in Photoshop (& GIMP)

[Redrobes]

Funso - that kicks a-- ! I was just scanning this thread to look at Robs contours and came across your map. Very cool. Stick around wont ya.

I was playing around a few days ago doing some simple contours using gaussian blur and flood fill with very tight match values. Wherever you click it places rings around any shape. I was looking into putting waves into sea shapes. It works well but not as good as this. Wasn't going to comment but for Funso's great post.

[Badger]

great work... your tutorials rock, hopefully I'll be able to implement this tutorial once I've finished with the umpteen others I need to do can't wait to try it out

have some rep on me!

**NM... it seems I must have given you some rep recently and I must spread the wealth... but... I'm thinking of you... does that count??

[pyrandon]

Thanks, del! I can't wait to see what you come up with next!

(And yes, the "almost rep" still means a lot to me! Thanks!)

[Darth_Gimp]

Rob if you could clarify how you used the gradient and the shaped gradient that would be great.

Sweet tut! How do I rep you?

[Gamerprinter]

How do I rep you?

Click the "Scales" symbol at the bottom of the name/avatar space on the leftside of the post. Do this on the specific post you are "repping". A little menu will pop up, give a short reason why you are applying REP and click OK... that's it, you'll have granted "rep"!

[Darth_Gimp]

Click the "Scales" symbol at the bottom of the name/avatar space on the leftside of the post. Do this on the specific post you are "repping". A little menu will pop up, give a short reason why you are applying REP and click OK... that's it, you'll have granted "rep"!

I'm getting old it seems and I am just not sure I see them... could point them out?



I do wonder if I need to increase my post count first...

EDIT: Yep I think it was a post count thing because they are there now. thanks!

[RobA]

Rob if you could clarify how you used the gradient and the shaped gradient that would be great.

Sure.

First get into the gradient editor:

grad1.png

Right Click to get the menu and select Replicate Segment (and pick 2). This gives two duplicates of the original segment.

grad2.png

Now change them so the left segment is all black and the right segment is all white. First Click on white arrow below the left side gradient to select just that segment (the bar will turn blue under the section the menu will now work with). Right Click and select "Right Endpoint Colour" and change it to black. Now select the right hand gradient portion (click the white arrow under it on the right) and change the left endpoint colour to white. You should now have a gradient made of a black bar and a white bar (I have circled the white arrow and braced the section this lets you edit by example):

grad3.png

Now decide how many bands you want. Lets say I want 10 (which will turn out to be 20 rows of tiles when the outline is stroked). Select both segments (shift click on the white triangles of both segment) then right click Replicate section and set the slider to 10. Now you get this:

grad4.png

To use it, just set the gradient tool to use Shaped (Angular) (and dial up the supersampling). It will fill a selection with the gradient following the
selection shape. You will get the ful gradient (10 stripes) from the edge to the "center" of the largest space. Here is an exmaple:

grad5.png

Now select the black (or white) with the Select by Colour Tool and perform a Edit->Stroke Selection with the tile brush!

Like I said, this is a bit of a workaround for gimp, as I believe photoshop lets you dynamically scale gradients. Gimp does not on any of the "Shaped" gradient fills.

Hope that helped!

-Rob A>

[Hapimeses]

I'm utterly enamoured with the idea of drawing a mosaic map. One of the reasons I joined this site was to try out some new things, and this is certainly one of the things I'm going to try.

However, I'm a total tinkerer, so I'll probably ignore the tutorial about halfway through, but it looks like it'll be a perfect start to trying out a new mapping style.

Thanks for the tutorial, it rocks! -- I'll post whatever I come up with later.

[pyrandon]

I'm utterly enamoured with the idea of drawing a mosaic map. One of the reasons I joined this site was to try out some new things, and this is certainly one of the things I'm going to try.

However, I'm a total tinkerer, so I'll probably ignore the tutorial about halfway through, but it looks like it'll be a perfect start to trying out a new mapping style.

Thanks for the tutorial, it rocks! -- I'll post whatever I come up with later.

Thank you for the compliment, Andy, and I'm pleased you found this idea interesting enough to someday try. Like you, I'm an incessant tinkerer too, so I know what you mean about using tutorials as only guides; please let me know if your play leads you to new techniques or improved methods, too.

Take care, & I look forward to your shot at this.

[Hapimeses]

Thank you for the compliment, Andy, and I'm pleased you found this idea interesting enough to someday try. Like you, I'm an incessant tinkerer too, so I know what you mean about using tutorials as only guides; please let me know if your play leads you to new techniques or improved methods, too.

Take care, & I look forward to your shot at this.

Well, it's been a fun draw. I'm pretty much finished (I'd been tinkering for a wee while when I made my last post). I started by following your tutorial pretty closely, but found I wanted a little more freedom, so started to freehand everything rather than use the suggested brush options. What I've ended up with looks pretty similar to yours, so perhaps I'd've been best sticking with your brush all the way to the end.

I'll post the map after I've tinkered a bit longer. I'm pretty pleased with the end result, and it'll join the rest of my roleplaying group's Warhammer maps (I did a map of Tilea, for anyone that knows WFRP).

Anyway, I'll be back soonish.