[Award Winner] Eneini: a medieval city tutorial (in Photoshop)

[pyrandon]

Awwww...shucks!

Thanks, I really appreciate it! Seeing your results totally made my day. Glad I can help in some way.

[ravells]

Rightful praise, well deserved! . This is exactly what this site should be doing.

[Midgardsormr]

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.

[pyrandon]

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