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    Quote Originally Posted by Gidde View Post
    This is a great map! I agree with jfrazierjr on the grunging of some of the ink. It could use a little crackling/bleeding.
    Good point, and something I've been wanting to try. I'm guessing you mean the text (or any aspect that, in real-life would have been applied to the canvas by ink). any ideas on how i can do that effefctively?

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    Now, i really want to know more about the world. Care to share the stuff about the world (as it sounds you have written up a lot)?

    Btw, i dig the older map more. I just love the shapes better than in the new iteration.

    Have some Rep.!
    thanks well, without cluttering up the thread too much (dont want to start adding not map-related attachments) here's a few things done on PS that are related to the world of Elyden. the first is a poem that's about 8-years old now, that was intended as an introduction to a novel that's now stalled. the second is a fable from the same world.

    both backgrounds were made from scratch on PS, with text imported from word and warped with a displacement layer.

    both documents are now intended to be used as filler text-boxes for the in-world encyclopaedia im writing (a monolithic undertaking that i plan on self-publishing, if i ever finish it)
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    Quote Originally Posted by vorropohaiah View Post
    Good point, and something I've been wanting to try. I'm guessing you mean the text (or any aspect that, in real-life would have been applied to the canvas by ink). any ideas on how i can do that effefctively?
    I haven't found/figured out a good way to crackle it yet, but a low-strength spatter filter does wonders for making the edge a little less computer-generated-perfect (it doesn't work on transparency though, so it has to be a black ink/white background layer which then can be set to Multiply mode so the white disappears). The text itself would benefit, but what really caught my eye as needing it were the decorative swirlies in "ink" at the corners and such.

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