Ascension's Atlas Style Tutorial - Revised Presentation + Actions

[justkae]

I love the tutorial! I went through the manual version completely, but alas, my laptop crashed midsave near the end, and I lost the whole thing. Two whole days of work gone!

I figured this would be a good time to switch to the actionscript version to recreate my work (*sob*), but I'm getting the same problem some other people are... step 7 just isn't working right.



This looks absolutely nothing close to resembling what I had when doing it manually. The lighting is messed up, and the gradient is different too! What's going wrong? I'm using Photoshop CC, which I believe is the same as CS6.

Can anyone help? Is there something wrong with the script as uploaded, given that some others have expressed issues with this step as well?

There are two different types of gradient map. Gimme a moment open up my photoshop to show you some screencaps...

You are doing (1), you can do (3) but (2) is what you should be doing

[Metonic Lunatic]

Hello, Kindari! Just wanted to thank you for the excellent tutorial. I have merely finished the video version on Youtube and produced my very first map from scratch. I downloaded the trial version of Photoshop and followed your steps (and I have never used Photoshop before). Made a draft map for a tabletop RPG setting my friend/GM had in mind for a future campaign. He liked it and I'm rather stoked myself, although it doesn't look quite as good as yours.

I don't know whether or not you have much experience with making video tutorials, but I have to say that this was really top notch. The pacing, the voice-over, the on-screen shortcuts and the other content was really well put together.

So again, thank you for getting me started!

[Darce]

New to the Guild and I'm going to try this today. I'm using Photoshop CC.

[Siggy442]

Hey folks. First, I want to thank the creators for thus tutorial. I've used it before to great effect, and I must say I love it. I did have one question though.

I remember a while ago seeing someone mention and option for using an outline you may have drawn by hand for this, but I can't for the life of me find out how to do that or where to look. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!

[Sharidine]

Hey.

I'm following the youtube video (Atlas Map Style Tutorial - 3 of 7 (Photoshop)) and i'm at step 27

27. Clear layer styles (layer “Ocean Adjust”) --- Alt -> L -> Y -> A

When i follow this step in the video it goes back to the clouds (Black and white)

Here are the pictures before and after i do that step
Before: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmspxgwhk2...efore.png?dl=0
After: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhj1lmht2b...After.png?dl=0

And is it just a PS6 thing that the thumbnails in the layer part of the screen is blue (in video 1 and 2 they are like mine) but in part 3 they have changed to blue in the thumbnails

[Bren McDonnall]

I think the OP has abandoned the thread. I've had no success getting any responses over the last couple of months. The issue with the image going back to monochrome is specific to the version of PS you're using. Later versions bake the color in during the operation of step 27. Older versions require you to bake the color into the image separately. Earlier in this thread somebody went over the steps. I haven't done them yet, since I'm a flailing infant with PS. If you or anybody gets it to work in older versions, please put up a tutorial.

[Lothebork]

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[jimydog000]

Thanks for the tutorial, I did it a few months ago but decided to post it now.

[johux]

Thanks for tutorial.

[Southern Discomfort]

Thanks for the tutorial!
My first try: https://imgur.com/a/2nRu2

I know i need to improve but i'm happy with the result since most other maps i've done looked like crap.