Prince of Cups Project - Level 1 (first time with Photoshop)

[JPQuinn]

OK - ya gotta tell me how you pulled off the crosshatched edges on the rooms. I have been trying to figure it out and haven't come up with a solution yet.

Is it a crosshatched layer that you're setting to 'Soft light' or 'overlay' and then cutting out the rooms / walls? or something else.

And I would agree with your wife - the previous version was a tad orange. Good work with the grid, btw.

Keep it going!
-GP

Thank you! I'm color blind and have no idea (I ask either my eldest daughter or my wife what colors should go where and they pick my palette for me).

As to the crosshatch:
1) Make an overlay layer with the crosshatch pattern (I found it here --> http://www.cartographersguild.com/ma...-hatching.html)
2) Add a layer mask
3) Use the wand tool
4) Mask the rooms, corridors, etc.
5) Expand the selection (in my case 60px = 1 square, so I expanded my selection by 30px)
6) Invert the selection
7) Feather the selection by half of Step 5
Mask that portion

This should make the crosshatches solid by your walls and then fade off into your top color. I'm sure someone else knows a faster/more efficient way of doing this, but this is the process I used. I hope it helps