I really like those trees. Are they done mostly with noise?
I really like those trees. Are they done mostly with noise?
Make a dot with the 45 pixel soft round brush tip but use it in pencil mode. Make a bunch of other dots so indicate trees. Oh and use white. Fill the rest of the layer with black. Crystallize it at 12. Hit it with spatter, then hit it with glass. Delete the black and the rest is layer styles: color, pattern, bevel, glows, etc. For the branches, create a new layer and fill it with the default pattern metal landscape, then hit ctrl+i to invert it and delete the blacks...leaving white branches. Erase around the trees and then color overlay it with brown. For the blossoms fill a new layer with 400% noise, double the scale, blur, delete the blacks, delete the stuff not on trees, then color overlay.
Now keep in mind that this is PS so I don't know how well it works with Gimp or PSP or Paint.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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Very lovely indeed!!! The rooves are stunning.
Haven't had too much time to get any work in this week, a couple of hours a day at most. Lookin pretty well close to done...gotta work on the bridges and rice paddies and of course labels and graphics.
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If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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All of the buildings use the new brushes that I made except for the castle complex. For those I did 400% noise, then scaled it up 400% twice, patchwork filter, contrast maxed, delete the blacks, some minor hand tweaking, pick out the most interesting shapes and use as buildings, then layer styles.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
You cool with adding yourself to the thumbs or did you want me to do it ?
Fabulous work!
There's 2 trees in the northeastern temple area that are edging their way outside the walls (from being on a lower layer I imagine), might want to send a monk out to prune those
I'm amazed!
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
Thanks for spotting that, I'll clean em up.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Amazing stuff...
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
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