[Award Winner] Saderan – a tutorial

[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.

[Tear]

"Group with Previous" was renamed to "Create Clipping Mask" in later versions.
Sorry for the confusion.

[FAHall]

Working through the tutorial right now, and on the first step there is a tricky thing for GIMP users.

We do NOT have a threshold adjustment layer.

I have been able to get a similar effect by simply duplicating the "background" layer and then running the threshold adjustment on the duplicate.

The annoying part is when I get to editing the image (removing or adding land), I am flying blind. I can edit the original cloud image, but I do not get a real-time view of what my brush strokes are doing. So, my first attempt left me with some areas that were too rounded for my taste.


I think this can be worked around, it just involves a bit more of a time commitment from GIMP users.

Perhaps a more experienced GIMP person knows of a better way to work around the lack of Threshold Adjustment Layers. There are on plugins that I can find.


On to the next step!

[Eilathen]

"Group with Previous" was renamed to "Create Clipping Mask" in later versions.
Sorry for the confusion.

Cool, that worked. Thanks a lot, Tear. Highly appreciated and very nice tut!