[Award Winner] Rising up the mountains in Photoshop

[Coyotemax]

This is basically a concept sketch while practicing the tutorial, seeing if I want to do up a full version to match the last map. So some of the terrain may not match perfectly. But it's incredibly easy to make the terrain, and edit as you go! wow! Too bad we can't give out more than 1 rep point at a time, the tutorial is worth a lot. Pasis, you are my hero for today!!

(and yeah, i'm kind of proud of that volcano... I think that putting the country name under the smoke layer would give an interesting effect..)

[Gandwarf]

Actually, reach 100 rep and you will give out +2 rep

I was looking at the labeling near the volcano and I was thinking the same thing: what would it look like if the name is under the smoke?

[Coyotemax]

To heck with wondering, let's take a look

[Gandwarf]

Better, the smoke looks like it's rising up from the map.
The label is now of course unreadable

Did Aslan already see this?

[Coyotemax]

I sent him a message in response to a priv, but I think he logged out before I hit send.. I'm sure he would have commented by now
Maybe I'll move this to a WIP thread and surprise him with a finished piece tonight, heh

[Ascension]

Your volcano smoke needs a shadow because I lost it in the terrain just to the north of it. Pretty sweet nonetheless.

[Gandwarf]

Ooh, that looks very promising!!
It's pretty zoomed out though. Are you working in a higher resolution than this?

[Ascension]

Nice work Tear, good color choices.

[Tear]

Are you working in a higher resolution than this?

Yes. Labeling all the locations would be impossible otherwise.

[Gandwarf]

Yes. Labeling all the locations would be impossible otherwise.

Thankfully