I love the colors, but I agree that the canopy needs something, it looks a bit "flat".
I love the colors, but I agree that the canopy needs something, it looks a bit "flat".
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Yep, I'll take a shot at this. One way to deal with that canopy question is to set the size of the fuzzy brush you are colouring with to be smaller. Then the colour variation will be more on the scale of what we would expect of the trees.
As for the canopy edges, I'll see what I can pull together tomorrow morning.
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Heh.. actually.. i am not using brushes at all except to stroke the outline and to make the trunks...
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I see that now.
Right, here's a quick edit:
I've included the .xcf so you can see what I did:
Forest.zip
Ok... I moved the shadow to the other side, added some highlights to the right/top and low lights to the left/bottom. I also added a canvas texture overlay just for the heck of it.
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I think the highlights and shadows addressed what the others alluded to.
I can't say I dig the canvas texture, as yet.
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That's the trick. I'd think about toning down that texture a little, but that's purely a matter of taste and would be a call you'd probably want to make after the whole map had been done.
I'd suggest possibly making your clouds a little more turbulent at small scales so that the varying light/shade on the canopy is a little more suggestive of small trees. Possibly another layer of clouds over the top of your current one with the turbulence turned right up but with low opacity. Rob mentioned a better filter than the standard gimp one, which might be worth it as the standard one is a bit gridded.
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