As I've mentioned in other threads, Ascension's tutorial is one of the best in this forum. It was very inspiring! Very nice techniques! And since I am the guy who can't even draw a straight line with a ruler, I find this extremely useful!
As I've mentioned in other threads, Ascension's tutorial is one of the best in this forum. It was very inspiring! Very nice techniques! And since I am the guy who can't even draw a straight line with a ruler, I find this extremely useful!
Great tutorial, I ran thru it at work and was quite pleased with the results. What I'd like to do is convert it to work in GIMP if possible, because I do not have Photshop at home (or the $$$ to buy it). However, I am not knowledgable enough in either application to convert every step in Photoshop to the appropriate step for GIMP.
I managed to kinda "fudge" my way thru the lighting effects, they are no means accurate, but I am stuck on step #42;
"Control-click on the Base layer, then Select > Inverse, then hit Delete, then Deselect."
What is the equivalent command in GIMP for the Control-Click???
Also, anybody know if there is a script and/or plugin that duplicates Photoshops gradiant editor, I find GIMPs difficult to use.
THanks in advance for your respnses/replies.
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Don't know about the ctrl-click, but here is a gimp script I wrote to make a gradient from an image that I find easier to use than the native gradient editor.
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That's a good question...I haven't the slightest idea. I know one of the GIMPers will know though, or at least a work-around, but I'd assume it deals with the magic wand since we're working with a selection. The control-click (on the layer palette) loads the layer as a selection so a work-around might be to click on the base layer and magic wand the area that is not white, hide the base layer and go back to the previous layer then delete.
Last edited by Ascension; 07-02-2008 at 09:44 PM.
OK, thanks guys. I'll give those a whirl when I get a chance and see what happens.
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Followed all the instructions up to where I'm supposed to select land and base, PS won't let me use inverse for some reason.
Does the base layer still have a black ocean and black lakes on a white land? If it does, you need to get rid of those via an earlier step where you select the black and delete it. Also, when I say to control-click on a layer, I don't mean in the work window, I mean in the layers window/tab/whatchamacallit thingy.
Just wanted to say thanks.
Found this a few months back but just finally tried it earlier this week.
Got a cool map and it gave me a lot of ideas on how to improve what I've already been doing.
JD
Trying your tutorial out and I'm stuck here as well. I've got base, mountains (hidden), hills (hidden), land. The land is just the cloud texture with the lighting effect and the base layer is black where any water should appear. The land layer peeks through the holes in the base layer.
What's my objective here? To clear all the water pieces away from the land layer? I could color select black on the base layer, click on the land layer and delete anything inside the selection. Is that it?
There was a very large part of me that just died out of joy, and I'm almost positive that my kidney was part of that...i heard a large boom just now from somewhere in that general vacinity.
That map is amazing! I've been looking for a long time for a decent tutorial on how to make a map like that. Thank you so much!