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    Map I don't believe it, my first map in Photoshop

    Just wanted to thank 'Tear' for producing such a 'kick ass' tutorial and upload my first ever map using photoshop.
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    Why isn't this tutorial 5-star rated yet? :s

    Every man and his dog wants a Tear map making for their story at the moment and this little puppy tells you exactly how to make one. Come on people... rate this sucker up so that it can claim its rightful place in the pantheon of rather smug, medal-wearing tutorials that jeer at lesser tuts.

    Apart from that, I've had a few hours testing this out tonight and so far I am very pleased with the results. It's very easy to follow apart from the previously mentioned Clipping Mask confusion and also I found a place or two in the ocean section where it could do with telling you to deselect your alpha selection.

    Hopefully I'll get a chance to finish the tut tomorrow and I'll post up my results so that Tear can recieve a warm, glowy feeling inside.
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    Ok, so this is what I have so far from this tutorial. I thought I'd post an image in this thread as another example of what us lesser non-Tears can expect to achieve through this.

    Vaniya_Tear.jpg

    When I started this it was supposed to be a quick test to see what I can do with it, hence using the original Vaniya base map. But I'm pretty sure I'm going to carry on with this and see what I can get out of it in the end so I'll probably have to add the extra rivers etc. that I added to the Aronbor map.

    Anyway... loving this tut. Excellent stuff, Tear. Thanks.
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    Great mountain chains, reduces/removes the need for foothills.
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    An awesome tutorial!
    Sadly, I'm having a few problems with this tutorial...
    I'll be quite detailed here, so please excuse the wall of text.

    (Oh, I am using Photoshop CS4)

    Part 2 - Page 5
    After I've created the "ocean emphasis texture" layer,
    I can't "group with previous". I can, however, select both the "ocean emphasis texure" layer and the "ocean emphasis" layer and then group them together by doing:
    layer > group layers (or ctrl+G)

    Now; I realise that it could simply be because I am using CS4, the point is; I don't know ...

    My second problem is the step afterwards (which I attempted after grouping the "ocean emphasis texture" and the "ocean emphasis" layer with ctrl+G).
    When I move on it says that I should;
    Edit > Fill ... Pattern (wrinkles) - but there's my problem; I don't have the "wrinkles" pattern! (Or any other pattern for that matter, except "bubbles" and "tie dye")

    So basically... How do I add more patterns?


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    I also have CS4 and I think it seems as if it only comes with two textures, but I discovered that if you click the arrow, you will see more textures pools, they've got names like 'Artistic Surfaces', 'Nature Patterns. I simply load append them all. I don't know whether this helps, but I think you will likely find the texture your missing this way.

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    Depending on the memory in your system, you may want to be careful with the patterns loaded - each one gets loaded into memory as you go and can slow you down after awhile. You can clear ones out you don't need by using the Preset manager (it's become my friend lately). that having been said, the builtin patterns are usually ok, it's when you end up with a set of 50 or so patterns at 1024x1024 that you might notice

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    After working on a 25,000 by 12,500 world map I think I am now a master of waiting for Photoshop. It was making Scratch disks 10 gig big. Quite disturbing seeing all my hard disk spacing being warped away.

    But thats a good advice especially if you're working with large maps and are already having to deal with huge load times and process times.

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