[Award Winner] Inkscape Tapering River How-To

[su_liam]

Apparently I can't rep you yet. This one definitely earns it.

One modification I've found is, once you have the geometry to your liking, Convert Object to Path on your tributary river and then Union the result to the rest of your river system. It lacks the easy fixability of your way, but seems simpler, and, in my opinion, looks slightly better. You can then manipulate individual nodes on your uber-Path river.

[Karro]

So... can you import an image into the background of Inkscape so you can be sure you're placing rivers right?

Say... flatten a current copy of your working map and export it at (presumably at full size), then import into the background of Inkscape, get your river paths just right, then zap the background.

Then somehow, going back to, say, GIMP, import the river path right into GIMP?

I don't suppose you could detail the process you use?

[jfrazierjr]

This will be so much help to anyone who does not have a pressure sensitive tablet to be able to "fairly" easily draw rivers with a nice taper from start to finish.

Joe

[Karro]

This will be so much help to anyone who does not have a pressure sensitive tablet to be able to "fairly" easily draw rivers with a nice taper from start to finish.

Joe

Like me

[su_liam]

Even if you do have a pressure sensitive tablet rivers can sometimes be... painful.

[Robbie]

Would anyone like a tutorial on how to do this in photoshop or is this good enough to cover it for both?

[jfrazierjr]

Would anyone like a tutorial on how to do this in photoshop or is this good enough to cover it for both?

Sure nuff! Though I don't have PS, we can never have to many ways to do the same thing in other tools(of course if the tuts were grouped by tool, it would help people find them, but I think someone mentioned that before).

Joe

[su_liam]

Would anyone like a tutorial on how to do this in photoshop or is this good enough to cover it for both?

If this can be done in photoshop, bring it on!