[Award Winner] Rising up the mountains in Photoshop

[NymTevlyn]

Holy cow. I wish I'd seen this thread earlier. This is hands down the easiest way to get mountains exactly where you want them. The only suggestions and alterations I have, are that you should use a rough texture for the mountains that tiles seamlessly and is a neutral grey color so you can paint down textures on top of it to get the exact colors you want and blend it in with the map better.

A friend showed me their map they made using this technique and I was floored. I tried it and these mountains are so simple and easy to create and easy to alter. Just pattern stamp and erase as needed. This is a very interesting use of the bevel/contour/texture features.

[The-Somberlain]

Excellent tutorial! Maybe the best mountains I've seen in Photoshop! Thanks for sharing the textures also!

[Sigurd]

I spent an interesting couple of hours working through your tutorial and really appreciated it.

This is the end result.


Sigurd

[Edanna]

I enter here searching these techniques precisely for my maps and i get it in this tutorial. I am very happy for this tutorial, ¡¡thanks you very much!! it is just what i was searching. ¡¡Incredible!! ¡¡Thanks!!

[pasis]

Here we have the latest update to version 1.5. In it I have modified few tecniques as I found a bit better way to do them. Also added new stuff to the final touch section and few instruction to do some labeling.
And thank you all for your kind words and comments, I'm glad you have found this usefull...

[Mmansen]

I made this with some different styles. Is it ok?

[ravells]

Wow that's beautiful, but maybe just soften the ridgelines a little? IMO they're a bit strong...depends on the look you want of course.

[Ascension]

That's pretty nice Mmansen, I'd move that over to a WIP thread and put the finishing touches on it.

[Gandwarf]

That map looks beautiful. Unfortunately I can only see the thumbnail! When viewing the full version I get a red cross image.

[Ramah]

The colours of the hills and fields are wonderful but personally I feel the colour of the mountains is out of place. Those reddish mountains would seem more at home in an arid environment in my mind. Maybe a grey colour would look better?
Still, very nice looking map.

Edit: Oh yeah... really love your marsh effect. Consider yourself repped.