The brush will be any color you choose. It's the brush tip shape that's bw.
If you use a square brush and use 50% gray and make one layer/color you can then go in and change color overlay on each layer and add a stroke.
The brush will be any color you choose. It's the brush tip shape that's bw.
If you use a square brush and use 50% gray and make one layer/color you can then go in and change color overlay on each layer and add a stroke.
What Hoel said. In my version of PS my largest standard square brush is 24 pixels so I made one of my own that is 100 so that I can shrink it down as needed. If you were to use the standard 24 pixel one and scale it up then the bottom right corner gets rounded off and it's a pain to have to go back and fix a bunch of rounded off squares. I think it's the right, could be the left. At any rate, take out your square pencil, choose a blue, put down some squares, change to red, put down some more squares, etc. If you need to move a square then use the magic wand tool to click on the shape then the move tool to move it around. Then put down your circles. When done, add a layer style of stroke.
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Hi again, one more question... how could i do those boxes like a star? i tried rotating a square, but the result is horrible
And another one, how can i obtain the corners rounded? Thanks in advance again!!
There is a control for drawing multi-sided polygons in Photoshop - can't remember where off the top of my head.
As for the rounded corners you can try doing some searches on the web for custom brushes, there's got to be some out there somewhere. Or maybe there is a way to do it in PS that I don't know about.
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Ahhh... Midgard to the rescue - I knew there was something in there somewhere.
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I assume that this would work on a conworld map too?
Absolutely. The only thing the method as described really requires is strong border lines between countries to make the Magic Wand selections.
@the931stsoldier: Sorry I didn't see your question earlier. My demo map used a random parchment texture that I looked up on Google. However, there are at least a couple of tutorials here to create your own parchment textures. Here are two, one for Gimp and an off-site one for Photoshop:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=533
http://www.alibony.com/pse/081708papers-aged.html
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