[Award Winner] My atlas style in PS

[Coyotemax]

When I was working on my latest map, I wanted to get more mountains a lot smaller and more detailed than the standard cloud rendering size. What i ended up doing was creating a second file at 8000x8000, rendered the clouds on that, and shrunk to 2000x2000. Then after removing the black, I tossed solid colour layer below that so I make out the clouds easier. After that I just used the lasso tool to nab clouds out of this file to paste into the main one on the mountains layer. I also used this image to generate the hills layer.

maybe that'll give out some more ideas

[Mror]

Great tut!

Here is the final result of this atempt:



Now im goin to try your other tutorial, the antique map... both looks good.

[Ascension]

Aside from the river violations (going over mountains, splitting as they go downstream instead of join, connecting two oceans, lakes having multiple outflows) it looks perfect.

[Rythal]

damn nice tut... makes me wish I had PS

Say, I wonder if I could do something similar in corel... worth a try.

[Gandwarf]

If you can make something similar, be sure to post a tutorial

[Steel General]

I posted a .PDF version of the latest .doc file in the very first post.

[Vascant]

Lost a bit on Step 21 as well. Here is a screen shot. I am fairly sure I deleted something when not understanding the instructtions

Tyr: Double click on the gradient bar and it will bring up the editor and allow you to do the instructions in the step

[Ascension]

Those layer styles go on the Land layer. First off, ctrl+click on the Base layer to load the selection. Right click on the Base layer, on the layer stack, and choose "clear layer style". Poke out the eye on the Base layer to hide it. Click on the Land layer. Select - Inverse. Hit the delete key and then deselect. Then apply the layer styles to the Land layer.

[Vascant]

Those layer styles go on the Land layer. First off, ctrl+click on the Base layer to load the selection. Right click on the Base layer, on the layer stack, and choose "clear layer style". Poke out the eye on the Base layer to hide it. Click on the Land layer. Select - Inverse. Hit the delete key and then deselect. Then apply the layer styles to the Land layer.

I had a feeling that was the answer but given I am not an expert with PS by any means I have tried to follow the instructions as written the first time around, making notes as I go for things to improve upon the next run.

Thanks for the reply (off to step 21 again)

[Vascant]

Okay, time to find out if I screwed up even before this point.

The "Base" Layer, should this be just a sheet of white which covers the land mass areas?

I ask this because of Step 23
As I read it, it seems the idea is to effect only the ocean areas of the mountain layer, correct? Or the entire layer?

Then it switches the base layer and that is when I got lost and wondered if my base layer is incorrect.

Side note: When doing these tutorials perhaps showing the entire photoshop screen shot and not just the image would be very helpful perhaps. Just a suggestion. Seeing the layer pal might answer a few questions and such. However as long as you are willing to answer questions I am not giving up