Looks good, man. You can tone down the bright colors just by reducing opacity but otherwise, nice.
Looks good, man. You can tone down the bright colors just by reducing opacity but otherwise, nice.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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Dear Ascension, I got a tiny question for you.
"Grab a big airbrush, set the flow to 10%, and use black to fill in the ocean and white for the land. "
I use Photoshop CS5 and I can only find two Airbrushes:
Airbrush 75 Tilt Size and Angle
Airbrush Dual Brush Soft Round 45
Inexperience user here and I just wonder which of these two I should pick, or does this Tutorial work with both?
Thanks in advance.
I wanted to thank you for this tutorial Ascension. I finally completed my rendition of Anub'Volthrak, the desert continent my first book is centered around. Hopefully I'll be published soon, it's with an editor! Anyway I wanted to know if you have any problem with me possibly using this image (via your tutorial) in my book.
Last edited by LordNightwinter; 09-22-2011 at 02:59 PM.
No problem at all, man. It's your world so you own it - I just teach how to make it. For a book, though, they may want you to use black and white. Easy fix there, just delete the color layers.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Yeah I'm a pretty good hand at Photoshop so that won't be a problem.
It's a lovely tutorial and I really like some of the tricks, but those pencilly rivers ... wouldn't it help to put some anti-aliasing on them? You could just start out and make the map at, say, 600 dps instead (so, about double the dimensions, say 4000 x 4000 px) and then resize for web display. That way you wouldn't get the flat lines and all.
Hey Ascension, any chance of putting this into a Word document or PDF? If you don't have the time I might be able to do it, but I have a lot of other projects in the queue right now (argh) so I was hoping you might have already planned to do it?
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@Wisemoon, don't know if you saw this or not, but Candacis translated Ascension's tutorial to GIMP in pdf format. Here's the link.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Thanks Arsheesh! I go back and forth between Photoshop and Gimp, so either one is fine. I'll take a look!
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Hi there! I have a problem. I'm stuck in the step five. For some reason, i cannot switch the black area for grey area. I don't know how to do it and i tried a lot. Maybe is the photoshop version (CC 14) or something i did wrong (but i followed all the previous steps like the tutorial indicated). Well, i hope you will give me a hand with this issue.
Sorry to post this on the thread, but i cannot send an MP to Ascension because i'm new in the site.
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