Much better, and I second Ascension's comment on the text glow.
Much better, and I second Ascension's comment on the text glow.
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For some improvement on your parchment creation, try this old tut by RobA"
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=533
You could also try adapting the woodcut seas technique developed by S. John Ross (Ghalev) here: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/uresia-maps.htm
I don't know that anyone's posted a Gimp conversion for that technique yet, but I know it can be done because Helim3 used it for his Domains of Heva map, which can be seen in the Cartographers' Choice forum somewhere.
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Could you guys be more specific? The ocean ones are, I agree, a bit dark, and the edges too hard. Mostly that's because the solid noise overlay happens to be particularly dark in those spots, though the outline for "Nerath-That-Was" I made darker intentionally to differentiate it a bit. I'm no longer as fond of that now.Originally Posted by Steel General
As for the parchment...ouch. I thought it looked pretty good, but obviously I'll still be taking a look at RobA's tutorial. In re: woodcut oceans, I've been fooling around with that idea since I saw it in Ascension's tut on antique maps, without much success, but I think I may have found a solution. Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof.
"Unless I'm allowed to carry around a gun to shoot their giant killer-spiders, Australia needs to stay the hell away from me. Also Australians, who if they have lived this long are obviously agents of the spiders and not to be trusted."
My thought is that you don't need the outer glow on the text. If you want the ocean labels to be different then use a different font or italics. Other than that I think you're coming along just fine on this.
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Okay, cool deal. I'm assuming you mean no glow at all, including on the nation names. I was planning on doing a ton more naming and switching fonts around and whatnot anyway, so this will be a good opportunity for that.
I've been looking at the WIP Cora thread, and the map style seems similar to this one in a lot of ways, and he's using what looks like a bit of darkening at the edge of his land area to indicate the transition to water. Would that work at all here?
Oh, and I have a version of the map with hand-drawn mountains I found here on the boards. I'm working on good-looking placement, but even at this stage the image pipe I made out of the mountains has done a cool job.
Last edited by Alecthar; 06-06-2009 at 07:50 PM.
"Unless I'm allowed to carry around a gun to shoot their giant killer-spiders, Australia needs to stay the hell away from me. Also Australians, who if they have lived this long are obviously agents of the spiders and not to be trusted."
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