[Award Winner] Antique-style maps in Photoshop

[Dowly]

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.

Hey,

If you don't have the 50% gray option in your fill menu, you can pick the color manually (#808080) and fill the selection with that.

-Dowly

[Consortium11]

Very useful and much appreciated tutorial: relied on it almost exclusively to produce this.

Credit for the brushes to StarRaven of deviantart

It's still pretty rough... I haven't really worked the borders into the natural geography well (and the less said about some aspects of where I placed the geography the better...), but I'd still say it's by far the best large map I've ever done. I'll almost certainly be using the techniques this tutorial demonstrates in any large-scale map going forward.