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    Wip World Map attempt

    So I'm making a go at my second map using gimp. Trying a world map this time. I'm going to make this a WIP thread so I can ask questions when I get super confused. And I am now at a part which is really confusing me.

    I'm trying to make some fancy coastline effects, similar to what Butch Curry does in his fantasy cartography series #14.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGIwB0rywZ0
    At 7:40 into the video, he breaks his coastlines up a bit by locking the transparency and then adding some noise.

    I simply cannot get this same effect with GIMP. First of all, is the lock transparency the same thing as "lock alpha channel"? I can't find any lock transparency in the gimp interface and every search I do seems to suggest it is this box to the right of Lock on the layers menu in gimp. But when I click that box, I cannot add noise to my coastlines I've created. I can erase them with the eraser tool, but I can't seem to apply any noise filters to try and break them up.


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    Last edited by sindustries; 11-11-2010 at 12:49 AM.

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