A new village

[Carnifex]

I don't know how to achieve it automatically in photoshop (if it is even possible)

I sortof pulled a few tricks. I first tried with the lighting filter (with an alpha channel) and the result was ok but I could not move the houses afterwards. Now I'm back to good old bevel/relief layer style which works ok (but far from perfect) but each house have at least three layers so it's not recommended for large cities
Also when I scale them down the bevel layer style dosn't scale correctly.

[Carnifex]

So this image is actually posted in another thread but I wanted it here as well... hope you don't mind.

Castles! Here's a quick test of crenelations.

Thanks to Ravells for how to do this easily: http://www.cartographersguild.com/ho...tml#post204033