City Walls in Photoshop

[Coyotemax]

It's mostly changing around the bevel, and a tossup between stroke and glow, and my own happy stone texture (defined pattern) mixed in.

lemme load up the effects and i'll see what I got.

For this particular scale (1px=1') I initially used a 35 hard round brush for the initial steps on the wall, but later I just stayed with the 18 hard round, since I didn't think it would need any extra smoothing/select-modify-shrink because of the relatively straight wall lines. The towers are at 35, still. (I realize this may be a little larger than a real city wall, but anything smaller didn't look right).

I did the ctrl-select and shrunk the selection by 3 to get the inner layer on the walls and towers, the gatehouses didn't look right so I modified those selections by 5.

The bottom wall layer got..
Drop Shadow: Multiply, Opacity 100%, Global light angle (on my map is -45), Distance 5, spread 0, size 10
Bevel/Emboss: Inner bevel, chisel hard, depth 60%, size 0 soften 0, global light, everything else default
Contour: range 30%, default slope
Texture: my rock pattern, scale 10% depth 50%
Pattern overlay: My rock pattern, opacity 100%, scale 10%

Top wall layer...
Inner Glow: Normal, Opacity 100%, Colour dark grey 232323, size 4
Pattern overlay: My rock pattern, opacity 100%, scale 10%
Stroke: inside, size 1, dark grey 232323 (possibly not necessary with tweaking the inner glow, but i left it in for now)

Towers and gatehouses, I used the same setup, but with different drop shadows to imply different heights. That you'll need to play with yourself to determine best placement. If it doesn't do what you like it to, you may need to make another layer under it and make your own shadows by hand and stretch them out.

Whee!