May/June Lite Entry: County of Clether

[Zar Peter]

The idea came from Ascensions "Antique Style maps in Photoshop".

First I make an outline plan of the coastline I want (preferable not black, I used green here)
I make three layers with clouds, the more detail the wigglier the coast. Set the opacity of the two upper layers to 50% and merge them down. Then I set the opacity of this layer to 50% and lay the outline plan under that. Now I take a signal color (red) and fill the pieces along my want to be coastline (sometimes I have to hand-draw a bit. When finished select by color and copy the red bits to a new layer. Then select the sea and save the selection as sea or coastline or whatever.

In my picture there's the coastline before the selection... the greys are the clouds, the green is the sketch and light red is the filled new coastline.

[Ascension]

I like your idea of layered clouds...might give me more (finer) detail so I'll have to try that sometime.