[Award Winner] My atlas style in PS

[Chadwick]

Ah it must have been the hard round that was doing it to me because I tried it with airbrush both on and off. Thanks a ton Ascension ^^ Really appreciate you taking the time to help me out.

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That was definitely it ^^ Just went through and did one that's much better I think. I also realized I had the lighting for the hills set up incorrectly and the color is much better this time around.

[Ascension]

Now yer cookin, looks great. Glad I could actually find the problem and fix it and help someone out following my lead...I'd hate to lead someone down the wrong path. Good luck, mate, and keep up the nice work.

[Vandy]

Hello, All.

Here is Ascension's wonderful tutorial repackaged as a PDF document.

Enjoy.

Regards,

Gary

[Ascension]

Thanks, V. Glad you're doing this, it's very helpful.

[Sirith]

Hmm, I have a very hard time following the tutorial. I seem to be doing fine, but when I get to the picture at step 22, it looks absolutely nothing like what Ascensions tutorial shows (see attachment). I figure it might already be going wrong at step 11, but I'm not sure. I like the tutorial, I just can't seem to get it right :/
Is there a crucial step or detail I might be missing?

(Also, ignore the weird island-shape, I'm just trying to figure out how it works )


EDIT: Alright I seem to have found my problem. When you start to add colour, I first selected the base layer, so all further layer styles were applied to that layer, instead of to the land layer.


EDIT 2: Another try. I'm not very fond of the outcome, there are some areas definitely needing improvement. However, I can see myself using some of these techniques on future maps, especially to throw in some texturing on my (normally) handdrawn and -painted maps.
Thank you for the tutorial, Ascension

[Ascension]

Sorry I couldn't get back to ya sooner there Sirith, I work at my biz every day, half days on weekends, so I am usually indisposed until the afternoons/evenings. I'm glad you were able to mend it and if you have any further questions just ask

[Kasonic]

Hate to dig this up and bother you, but I'm screwing up somewhere around step 19 in your tutorial.

(First time poster, total PS newbie, I found this thread through another site; great tutorial and method!)

It says to apply the same lighting effects to the hill and land layer...well, when I do this, I get an image that's WAY darker than your example, or anyone else's. The color is correct without the lighting render, but then the texture obviously wrong.

What's the newbie doing wrong?

[verdilak]

EDIT: Alright I seem to have found my problem. When you start to add colour, I first selected the base layer, so all further layer styles were applied to that layer, instead of to the land layer.

I figured my problem out and it was this issue as well.

[verdilak]

I figured it out, thanks man!

Also, I tried to get your sat mountains tutorial to work but they didn't turn out very well, so I undid those changes to it.

[pickaboo]

Hello, All.

Here is Ascension's wonderful tutorial repackaged as a PDF document.

Enjoy.

Regards,

Gary

I'm sorry but I think you have forgotten to include the phase where we're supposed to do the overlay for mountains from your pdf. I'll attach a pdf-print of the doc so you can see the difference.