Random mapping fun

[jfrazierjr]

Interesting, so far. I look forward to seeing more. How did you do what you've got so far?

I wish I could say I was going to "finish something next week".... but I have no more than 2 hours a week to work on mapping

Anyway, good luck.

Pretty much followed the tutorial on Santhria.com. Steps so far :

• New image
• Image->Mode->Greyscale
• Grey background(70% or so)
• New layer
• Trace outline in around 70% grey or whatever other way you want to generate a land mass
• Big airbrush around 30% grey (mostly white) making sure to go OUTSIDE the landmass lines a bit
• Select the Landmasses
• Save channel
• New Layer
• the Tutorial said to Airbrush (60% grey) manually the outlines to get the "inner" areas dark around the outline of the shore, but being lazy, I stroked the Selection with the Airbrush several times with a bit of jitter and Brush dynamics turned on.
• Smudge the lines toward the inside of the landmass somewhat randomly to get some color variation.
• Apply a layer mask if the layer with the stroke went outside the lines (into the sea part)

Next up is mountains... Perhaps Saturday night.