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    Wip Patrecia WIP

    Here is my first attempt, it is a small corner of a much larger map.
    I have already used a great amount of knowledge from the tutorials and would be glad to receive any comments and or criticisms.
    I use both photoshop and GIMP (only just a little of gimp for the nice extras)
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    Ill keep adding as i add to it.
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    Wip

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    This is the very large scale version of the map. eventually i will be filling the entire thing, we'll see how long it takes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrassChuckles View Post
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    This is the very large scale version of the map. eventually i will be filling the entire thing, we'll see how long it takes.
    In cartography, "Scale" refers to the scale ratio, not the area covered. "Large Scale" therefore means "zoomed in" (Or more precisely, "Less zoomed out") and "small scale" means "zoomed out"

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    Well thank you This is a small scale of the continent then.

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    looks pretty good so far. I would use a different style brush to mark the roads however. they look a bit jumbled for lack of a better word. In my humble opinion a nice dashed line or dotted line would work better. keep it up! its looking great so far and for your first attempt.
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    Yeah i just figured out how to make the roads look better. though i do look that, when full sized, it looks like footsteps. It will probably change as the map grows, we shall see.
    Thanks for the comment and the compliment.

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    I think it looks great so far, though I agree about the roads. The rivers especially look great; very realistic curves and bends, and I love the subtle coloring.

    Have some rep and welcome to the Guild!

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    Thanks the rivers i kind of used some inspiration from Roba and did my own thing. I use Photoshop primarily, and i used the fade tool with the brush. Set it to 1000ish and hand drew the river using a 4px round. When i was done i did the same with the small tributaries, everytime reducing the amount of fade by the same percentage as i reduced the brush size. Keeps it even and works great. Then i just made a copy of the layer and used Gaussian Blur, setting it pretty high, then adding noise, then less blur again. I really like the effect.

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    Labels added, as well as some additional work on the trees/rivers. Still havent fixed the roads, but i'm trying to figure out a good way to do that with photoshop. Anyone know how to do a stroke path, like is so easily done with GIMP, in photoshop? Just something where i can use the bezier pen to lay out a path then set the stroke to a dashed line. Any help would stop me from hours of ripping the hair from my head until i find it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrassChuckles View Post
    Still havent fixed the roads, but i'm trying to figure out a good way to do that with photoshop. Anyone know how to do a stroke path, like is so easily done with GIMP, in photoshop?Click image for larger version. 

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    May I offer you my help ;-)

    Just set up a new layer and use the brush tool including some changes within the presets to do so.
    If you need some advice on how to do this: Check out chapter 10 of my tutorial here.

    As it is said there you can vary the settings to get the style you really need.

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    Anyone know how to do a stroke path,...
    If you don't want to work with brushes and prefer to use paths: here's what I made for you.

    >Moe
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