[Award Winner] Saderan – a tutorial

[darkfyre]

I saw this on Reddit and had to come look at the other things here. This is an awesome tutorial. Thank you.

[robus]

I found a fantasy world map on DeviantArt that I loved and wanted to create similar maps. It was of course based on this tutorial, so I just went through and created a world of my own:



The only difficulty I had was with the rivers (getting them to stroke nicely was quite fiddly). And the Bevel & Emboss settings. The ones from the tutorial seem quite aggressive?

Anyway - what do you think?

[ravells]

Fantastic Tutorial, Tear. Repped, rated and added to the 'quickstart' thread.

[CartoGeo]

This I absolutely awesome! I am astonished at finding this tutorial because I wanted you to make one and I even have your map set as my desktop as a perfect example of well crafted world map. To find this tutorial and see that care was taken with it, all I can say is thanks!

[Tear]

Thank you for all your comments. I really hope this tutorial is a contribution that will help some folks.
It's my first one though, so if you have any questions feel free to ask.
I'll be away for a few weeks, but if I don't answer by Christmas, you can be pretty sure my plane crashed.

Looking forward to figuring out how to get this one working in GIMP

I don't know much about Gimp, but from what I've read, the use of Layer Styles is a major difference. I used those extensively, so I hope you'll find a workaround.

So i tested it out.

Thanks for giving it a try. To me it looks like you skipped some instructions, but I probably didn't explain them well enough.
Maybe it's because I was using a mouse. Opacity settings are a different matter using a tablet, at least to me.

I am astonished at finding this tutorial because I wanted you to make one [...]

Yes. You wanted me to make one. So if it's bad it's all your fault. :p
Just kidding. Thanks for pushing me.

[FAHall]

I don't know much about Gimp, but from what I've read, the use of Layer Styles is a major difference. I used those extensively, so I hope you'll find a workaround.

This site has a link to a plug-in for GIMP layer styles:

http://laptoplogic.com/resources/con...dobe-photoshop

[Eilathen]

Trying this out as a total newb with PS CS2 ... and i hit a first snag. I am on page 7, so far all went well...but now i have the base color layer and it is in front of everything...i have only a brown square before me. What happened?

I do not have, with PS CS2, the option Layer>group with previous ... instead it is only Layer>group layers ... is that a problem? From the picture it seems right as it is one step over the land layer a bit to the right... so the hierarchy seems right.

Any ideas what i did wrong?

Thanks in advance.

E.

[thesubatomic]

I really appreciate this tutorial. It helped me a ton, I was actually able to make something that looked halfway decent. Thanks a ton man!

[Tear]

Post it.

If I'll ever do a tutorial again, I really want to know what worked and what didn't.

[thesubatomic]

It's in my thread in Regional And World Mapping. I'd love to get some feedback from you.