Stonegate Bay

[JadeEliott]

This map is amazing! Would you be willing to share how you did it? Programs used and techniques? This is exactly a style I like!

Thank you...

[altceva]

Would you be willing to share how you did it? Programs used and techniques? This is exactly a style I like!

Thank you...

Well, I'm a beginner in Photoshop, so this is the only program I used. I worked exclusively with Pen tool and Brush tool. The only custom shape I used is the table edge golden model, it is a default ornament in Photoshop custom shapes. I build the map first, then free transformed it for perspective view. Drawing soldiers was fun. Shadows are copies of the images temselves filled with black, vertically flipped, transformed, opacitiy reduced and slightly blured.
Simple as that.

I'm putting some pictures, small size, because my internet connection crawls...

[JadeEliott]

Thank you, that helped! :-)

[SeerBlue]

A wonderful looking map, very well done. SeerBlue

[torstan]

Wow, a great map indeed. And I'm doubly impressed that it was all done in photoshop!

Only one small nitpick - the English ship needs more shadow on the top side of its base, and ideally needs a mast shadow across its deck - but those are really small quibbles for a lovely piece of artwork.

[altceva]

Yeah, I thought about shadowing the ships on decks, but I was so eager to finish the image, so I embraced the superficiality and called it "done".