Barovia WIP

[Coyotemax]

I wish I could do a tutorial, everyone is always looking for ways to make nice hand drawn mountains quickly.. but there's nothing quick about it this, and it's nothing more than draw the shape of the mountain, then start shading it

I might do a set of brushes after I'm done this though. I figure if I do 20 or so, that should give enough variation to look good when slapped all over.

*ponders doing that for this map now*

[töff]

a set of brushes ... 20 or so

Dunno about GIMP, but Photoshop lets you change brushes with the > and < keys. If you had 20 mountain brushes loaded, you could click, <, click, <, click, < ... then >>>>> to go back to the first ... click, <, click, <, click, < ... it'd be a very smooth & easy way to paint varied mountains.

[Steel General]

Dunno about GIMP, but Photoshop lets you change brushes with the > and < keys. If you had 20 mountain brushes loaded, you could click, <, click, <, click, < ... then >>>>> to go back to the first ... click, <, click, <, click, < ... it'd be a very smooth & easy way to paint varied mountains.

I had no idea you could do that either, one of the ump-teen commands Photoshop has...Thanks!

[Coyotemax]

THAT'S how you change brushes quickly!!! omg I never knew that.



When I was doing the previous maps with wag's brushes, I was slapping down a few of the first mountain shape in the general area, then picking the next shape and tossing a few randomly here and there, then the next shape, etc.

All these years and I'm still discovering new keyboard controls. thanks, you just made my life SO much easier!!!

Dangit, I so wanted to rep you for that pointer, I'll have to come back to this after i've spread some more around.

[töff]

I saw a guy do it on a video somewhere. He didn't even say what he was doing. I couldn't see his hands; I just heard keys clicking and saw the brush outlines cycle. I was like OMG ... I don't even remember what the video was about. HAH!

[Gidde]

With GIMP, you can make a brush that cycles with each stamp. So with 20 brush frames, a nice wide spacing and big size/position jitters, you can make a widely varied range with one penstroke/mousestroke. It'd take a lot of setup though.

[torstan]

Thanks Toff. That's a killer tip.

[Coyotemax]

I've been finding all sorts of tips like this all of a sudden. Maybe I should take the time to read through the CS3 bible Thoroughly instead of skipping around and skimming bits here and there

for example:

Press Shift+[
(Shift+left bracket) to make the brush softer; press Shift+] (Shift+right bracket) to make the brush
harder. Both shortcuts work in 25-percent increments. For example, you have to press Shift+] four

times to go from 0 percent Hardness to 100 percent.


Preset shortcuts:

You can cycle between presets even when no palette is visible. Press the

comma (,) to toggle to the previous brush shape in the list. Press the period (.) to select
the next brush shape. You also can press Shift+, (comma) to select the first brush shape

in the list (1 pixel wide) and Shift+. (period) to select the last brush.

[Tiana]

I've been finding all sorts of tips like this all of a sudden. Maybe I should take the time to read through the CS3 bible Thoroughly instead of skipping around and skimming bits here and there

for example:

Press Shift+[
(Shift+left bracket) to make the brush softer; press Shift+] (Shift+right bracket) to make the brush
harder. Both shortcuts work in 25-percent increments. For example, you have to press Shift+] four

times to go from 0 percent Hardness to 100 percent.


Preset shortcuts:

You can cycle between presets even when no palette is visible. Press the

comma (,) to toggle to the previous brush shape in the list. Press the period (.) to select
the next brush shape. You also can press Shift+, (comma) to select the first brush shape

in the list (1 pixel wide) and Shift+. (period) to select the last brush.

And just the left and right square brackets increase or decrease the brush size
Hitting the numbers on the top change opacity
control - or + zooms in and out
alt + [ or ] = change layer
control + [ or ] will move the current layer up or down.
alt + backspace = fill in all selections.

Hold down control when you've selected something to move what's in the selection.
Hold down control and alt and hit an arrow key to duplicate a layer.
Control-alt drag also duplicates.
Alt-drag also duplicates.

/list of useful shortcuts.

I had a PDF of all the possible Photoshop keyboard shortcuts somewhere, organized much better than the Photoshop export version, that included all the hidden shortcuts... I wonder where I put it.



Your mountains are gorgeous, by the way. I love the hand drawn look. I always love hand drawn mountains.

[Steel General]

I had a PDF of all the possible Photoshop keyboard shortcuts somewhere, organized much better than the Photoshop export version, that included all the hidden shortcuts... I wonder where I put it.

Tiana, try this link: http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/shortcuts/