I LOVE your mapping skills, however I am struggling to get along with GIMP. Do you have a tutorial for photoshop at all? (I've been using that for the last 10 years and to go to gimp seems somewhat alien to meI want to make a map for my fantasy book I'm writing).
Hi Carl, thanks much for the compliment. Sadly I do not own Photoshop and am only somewhat familiar with the program. So to answer your question, no, I do not have any Photoshop tutorials. Perhaps someday though. Best wishes.Originally Posted by Carl Taylor
I LOVE your mapping skills, however I am struggling to get along with GIMP. Do you have a tutorial for photoshop at all? (I've been using that for the last 10 years and to go to gimp seems somewhat alien to me
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
No problem. I would be willing to allow you to use my Adobe CC account, but eh, security issues with that, think adobe would question signing on from England then in New Zealand. lol
Im having trouble generating interesting mountain patterns in photoshop. Any tips on that?
Also. What would you define as an interesting mountain pattern?
The addition blend mode in Gimp, what would that be in Photoshop? Screen?
Last edited by woekan; 02-08-2015 at 09:42 AM.
Mountains are fractal. So for me interesting patterns are fractal too. Basically Wilbur can create interesting patterns while PS or Gimp can't because they don't allow the interesting fractal settings that Wilbur does.
I got the mountains working. Now im stuck at the gradient. I cant make it near as pretty as the gimp tutorial.
Im using Photoshop. Any tips for me?
Also Bump map tool doesnt excist in Photoshop. Instead i used emboss, but this seems to make the map a little blurry.
Last edited by woekan; 02-08-2015 at 07:54 PM.
Sadly I don't own (and am unfamiliar with) Photoshop CS. I do own Photoshop Elements but only use it for my tablet work, and am not too familiar with it either. What I can tell you is that in GIMP "Addition" is lighter and subtler than "Screen". You might try "Lighten" in Photoshop, not sure.
Here I'm not going to be much help to you, because again, I'm not too familiar with Photoshop. However I'd direct you to check out jezelf's tutorials since he uses some similar techniques in his tutorials as the Eriond tutorial. Also, here's an example of his workflow that he posted a few years back (I'd link to thread but our search filter doesn't seem to be working so instead I've uploaded it directly).
I got the mountains working. Now im stuck at the gradient. I cant make it near as pretty as the gimp tutorial.
Im using Photoshop. Any tips for me?
Also Bump map tool doesnt excist in Photoshop. Instead i used emboss, but this seems to make the map a little blurry.
Hope his tutorials are a help to you.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Thanks for the tips Arsheesh!
Here is my result using photoshop.
Those mountains look cool! Much different than the ones I've made using GIMP. For some reason the ocean appears overly dark though. Was that intentional?
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Just a note -- I relied heavily on this tutorial for Erobelis Isle, which turned out well even though I wound up not using cloud-generated terrain after all.
I also used DonDozone's realistic forests, and relied heavily on help from su_liam and deadshade for getting the Wilbur part worked out.
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