Mustak learning

[Ourea]

I could never write a second language fluently
Are you using Photoshop? If so, you could try Tear's tutorial for a shelf style. I'm a real fan of the way it looks:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...%96-a-tutorial

[Mustak]

Again the shelf It´s way to smooth compared to the landmass contour. I took the smear tool to break up the contour line and added errosion using the dodge tool ( don´t know the gimp equivalent ). Hope it helps. I think that can be used taking your original image without to much change. It will take some time though. Looking foreward to your solution!

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I trying Sharpen, Smudge and Dodge Tools, but I can't get this erosion effect. I keep testing. Thank you.

[Mustak]

Look closely at the continental shelves of the large bay ...

Too much contrast in the shelf, right?

[Mustak]

The shelf looks better (if it were my map I'd still play around with it a bit, perhaps try adding some Spread Noise (Filter > Noise > Spread > 4%) to try to break up the uniformity a bit).

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

Filter > Noise > Spread > 5% and Smudge Tool:

[Mustak]

I could never write a second language fluently
Are you using Photoshop? If so, you could try Tear's tutorial for a shelf style. I'm a real fan of the way it looks:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...%96-a-tutorial

My English teachers were D&D books and a English - Spanish dictionary

Thanks for the link, good tutorial.

[Mustak]

I use The Gimp, but I'm testing Photoshop.

[Mustak]

My second map:



No countries, no rivers.

I make it with Photoshop using Ascension's Atlas Tutorial.

In Creating the Continental Shelf, Select > Color range = black with a fuzziness of 150, I use 50 instead.

[Lukc]

I think your maps are improving very fast indeed

[Mustak]

Thanks Lukc.

[Mustak]

How interesting, I found a plugin for Gimp that allows you to use layer styles as Potoshop, Layer Effects.

The Python version (layerfx.py) allows preview.