Avara - WIP

[ravells]

LOL! Ascension I use a vector for all my labelling, you can have everything on one layer and move it around as you want.

Not driving a bulldozer...honest! But I find it so much easier doing the map in PS and the labelling in Drawplus.

Mech: the ocean looks good to me for the present style, but if you want to try out some textures, I suggest you look at Genetica and download the free viewer and the free tiling texture set. fill your ocean layer with white and use the textures as a pattern fill (easier to scale). Then put two or three textures on top of each other using clouds as a layer mask and playing with the blend modes.

[mechaThor]

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the advice so far! I really do appreciate it since I'm always looking to try and get better, and this place seems like really good community to go to for improvement.

Anyways I sort of messed around with PS and got this (see attachment). It still looks kind of phony, but at least its more of a step in the right direction. This is the first time I've really messed with layer masks, gradient changes, etc. so I guess you could say its all a learning experience.

@ravells: I'll try out that software later this weekend once I get a chance to actually sit down and mess around with it.

@Steel General: are there any good sites with archived custom patterns? The ones that come with CS2 are pretty crappy and look hideous.