[Award Winner] Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional RPG Map

[RobA]

Geee. Thanks

-Rob A>

[ravells]

It's about time RobA quit slacking and made another one!

[pyrandon]

It's about time RobA quit slacking and made another one!

Hear hear!

This tutorial is the flagship of the Guild, netting more hits than any other thread, I believe (and definitely more than any other tutorial). It's well written, complete, and amazingly helpful.

Rob, you are hereby commanded to get to work!

(PS: a video tutorial would be even better, I say!)

[Zar Peter]

My three cents:
Great tutorial. I downloaded Gimp because of that and started to try two days ago. My efforts after about 7 hours work you can see below. I'm not very happy with the tree-texture but all I need now is some experience.

For me the hardest part was to translate the english terms and the inversion at the beginning (as described in Crymoons post. In the tutorial post you write "Now create a new transparent layer (Layer->New Layer) and name it “Land”..." it should be a white layer, otherwise the inversion doesn't work as shown.)

[cbridges392012]

Thank you for creating this tutorial, it's exactly what I was looking for as a new dm needing a map for my players, and a perfectionist who wants the tools to world build the right way

[triarius]

I've gone through the tutorial, as well as the revised version by wisemoon, and when I get to the sea creation portion, I'm running into trouble. This is the result I', getting:
Seashore result.jpg

My land is blue, the sea darker near shore than in the deeps, and when I try to add land colors, they blend with the blue. I can't figure out what I'm missing.

One thing I have noticed about both versions of the tutorial: the type of fill for a new layer is often not mentioned. Noobs (like me!) need to know.

Please help!