The results look great, so I am definitely going to take a look at the tutorial
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Pyrandon's Tutorial was Terrific
I have had little to no experience with using Photo Shop and additionally have never attempted to create my own fantasy map. I followed the tutorial and 12 hours later I had my first map. I am so pleased with being able to create anything on Photo Shop and want to offer Pyrandon my sincere thanks for developing and sharing his well put together tutorial.
Make sure to give him some rep for it.
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Thanks, I really appreciate it! Seeing your results totally made my day. Glad I can help in some way.
Don
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Rightful praise, well deserved!
Very nice tutorial! I might give it a try for an upcoming project, provided I can get my current map done sometime in the next eight months.
I haven't read through very much yet, but I did notice one place where an improvement can be made regarding shadow placement: Instead of trying to remember which direction your light is coming from, you could simply draw an arrow on a trash layer.
I like to keep notes like that on my working documents, where I can refer to them easily rather than having to sift through a stack of other pages. Which is not to say that I don't generate a lot of handwritten notes all over my desk... I'm afraid I make a terrible mess in my work area.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
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Thanks for that arrow suggestion, Bryan--nice one!
As I re-look at this map tutorial (coming up on what, a year later?) I see plenty of places where I would do both slighter and larger modifications to that process, for I really was learning PS as I worked (which is one of my primary reasons for making tutorials in the first place). Now that my bag o' tricks is a bit more stuffed, I may have to go back and revisit/revide it some day. I will certainly be using the arrow suggestion
Don
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Just bumping this tutorial thread for new guild members...
It has been here for a while, but is worth pointing out!
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It's an anniversary bump even!
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This really needs to be stickied
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