[Award Winner] Mosaic Tile Map in Photoshop (& GIMP)

[Wafa Imran]

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[Mars Enyalios]

This tutorial is super cool!

[mearrin69]

I unexpectedly featured this tut on my livestream the other night. Mars shared ?her? map entry with me. Awesome stuff, that. I'm going to have to try this for some flooring in a future map.

I'll resist making a spider queen inlay in my July contest entry, Mars. Also, apologies if you are not a guy and I said "man" or "dude" or some such. I try to be mindful but sometimes make assumptions...especially with those that take gods of war for their nicknames.

[WghstrfG]

Good tutorial, nice work !

[roguecartographer]

So I followed this tutorial (with RobA's hints on how to do it in GIMP), but I made a few tweaks. I just made my own brush with custom gradient to get the randomness I wanted. I also used RobA's suggestion for the black and white gradients to fill the shape, then using the same gradient, but set to radial, I did the sea as a a circle. Considering this only took me an hour to make (including brushes) I am pretty happy with the results. It needs a lot more detail and stuff, but it was fun to try out this new method. (new to me at least)