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

[Korash]

Did you put the layer mode to "Overlay" instead of "Normal"?

[Jaqen Hagar]

I have seareched, and I don't have find how to make this. Please explain me how to proceed.

[NitzanLeo]

Hi, guys, I'm very new to GIMP, this is literally the first thing I'm trying, and I'm having quite a bit of trouble in some of the earlier steps of this tutorial, and I'd be very happy if someone could lend me a hand with this.

In the step of adding the layer called 'land mask', with the inverting of the selection, I've had two problems. First, I just couldn't for some reason fill the selection of the land with white. I kept dragging the colour into the selection or trying to use the bucket fill tool to do so, but it didn't do a thing. Second, I didn't particularly understand what it meant to make a black layer. Just making a new layer and filling it with black?

[mankring]

hi everybody! Amazing tutorial thanks! Btw, i can only DL 2 pdf: the one starting at PART3 and the other starting at PART4. Is the pdf containing PART1 and 2 available? bye and ty for your help.

[JefBT]

This is a great tutorial, and I'm trying to follow it. I'm posting my first try, without labels yet.
I followed the mountains and forests "linked" tutorials. Also awesome.



Again, thank you for this tutorial.

[Ray]

This is a great tutorial, and I'm trying to follow it. I'm posting my first try, without labels yet.
I followed the mountains and forests "linked" tutorials. Also awesome.



Again, thank you for this tutorial.

Very nice for 1st try. How much time did it take?

[JefBT]

And I did another map, using this (and some other) tutorial.

I like the results.

Thi maps will be the starting region of my next RPG. These are the middle-east lands of the Cobalt Valley.

And one more time: thank you for this amazing tutorial!

Here is the finished version:



And here I simply put a paper texture above the map, and set the blend mode to divide. I got a nice winter map.

[RPMiller]

Select the other objects then invert the selection to select the transparent.

[ttrush]

Still not working :/ Also when I normalize the image, a hue of green is present. I cannot figure it out. I use bucket fill in the selected transparent area to make it white but it stays transparent.

[RPMiller]

I see the problem. Don't "select" anything. Just make sure that the sea layer is the current layer. Then continue with the steps starting at "...auto normalize..." The rest should be straight forward I believe.