I must be colour blind, I can't tell the difference between the two!
I must be colour blind, I can't tell the difference between the two!
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Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
Its not a colour change. Hoel has already done all the work.
All I did was put a gray layer over top and adjust the light values a little. Here's another modified version and the gray overlay map beside it.
Personally, I like to add a little noise to maps so that I escape the sense that everything in it is planned. In my own works I find a little chaos artistically applied is usually a good thing.
Here's another version of the map with the modification layer beside it. Its not about colour, its about light. The differences are sometimes really subtle. Its much cleaner to add them as a layer gray tones rather than darken\lighten the original.
This is far from perfect. Just a quick thing to deepen the surrounding country.
Sigurd
Last edited by Sigurd; 12-22-2008 at 08:42 PM.
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Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
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Sigurd, would you mind posting the before and after side by side as a single image? I can use it to caliberate my monitor (which I had spent about an hour caliberating but I still can't see any difference between the two pictures).
Happy to post some before and afters. Here is the original (top left) and the gray scale (bttm rght). The other are lighting effects changes.
None of these actually change the original base layer.
Ravells - Here they are but personally I'd suggest you find some sort of standard for calibrating against.
Sigurd
I like to use Ascension's Snagglefjord and the Flash map that Gowienczyk posted in his intro thread for calibration. If I can see details in both, then I know I'm good.
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