[Region 1][Map 25][Location 2] Briar's Cove

[industrygothica]

The scale is a lot better, if not still a bit big. Your town by the inlet there looks to be about 8 or 10 miles or so; still big, but doable at least.

You should definitely redo the water and landmass to make them your own... there are probably a few ways to tackle that one relatively easily. Just tracing the landmass with the pen tool comes to mind first, but there are probably easier ways as well.

Your trees and rivers are looking a bit plastic, probably due to the bevel. There are many excellent tutorials here on how to get those knocked out as well.

Keep it up, you're getting there!


-IG

[CC_JAR]

The scale is a lot better, if not still a bit big. Your town by the inlet there looks to be about 8 or 10 miles or so; still big, but doable at least.

You should definitely redo the water and landmass to make them your own... there are probably a few ways to tackle that one relatively easily. Just tracing the landmass with the pen tool comes to mind first, but there are probably easier ways as well.

Your trees and rivers are looking a bit plastic, probably due to the bevel. There are many excellent tutorials here on how to get those knocked out as well.

Keep it up, you're getting there!


-IG

heh thanks, and I just learned about the pen tool, and using paths in photoshop in class Wednesday.. so I might do it like that just for the practice.
And I'll keep looking for more tutorials, but do any specific ones come to mind for the trees?

oh, and if it would get them more to scale, should I just go with dots for the cities, and then do each city map seperately?

[ravells]

You go to photoshop classes? Man I'm so jealous!!!

[industrygothica]

heh thanks, and I just learned about the pen tool, and using paths in photoshop in class Wednesday.. so I might do it like that just for the practice.
And I'll keep looking for more tutorials, but do any specific ones come to mind for the trees?

oh, and if it would get them more to scale, should I just go with dots for the cities, and then do each city map seperately?

That is certainly a viable option. In my Hammerfall map, which is the region directly south of Briar's Cove, that's what I've done. I've also taken the area around the "dots" and blown it up to map out the town proper, and am then able to scale back the town so that it fits precisely onto the region map. Of course that looks a little funny if your town maps are all done in different styles, which mine will be (hopefully), but it's fun to play with nonetheless. And a great opportunity play with an assortment of techniques.

I can't think of a specific tutorial on trees right now, but browsing through the tutorial section is half the fun of it, because you almost always run across something else that you didn't know you needed as well. If I should think of something though I'll be sure to let you know.

You go to photoshop classes? Man I'm so jealous!!!

That makes two of us. Of course, when I found this site it was like one big giant photoshop class to me. I've learned loads since I've been here.

[Ascension]

Same here...and I keep learning new things every week.

[CC_JAR]

You go to photoshop classes? Man I'm so jealous!!!

well, it's just Computer arts 1, but everything we've done so far has been with photoshop. We're getting ready to go into illustrator I think..

Same here...and I keep learning new things every week.

and of course, we all learn something new everyday!