Big WIP Project - Neoseilthir

[Juggernaut1981]

The ships are meant to be large-ish. The idea is that this map might be in and admiralty house for King Frederick. Hence the examples of foreign boats. The whole thing is supposed to be on a large scale, to be viewed from a distance. But I do get the sneaking feeling I will basically need to hide a bunch of layers, copy visible, rebuild and redraw the land-features again from scratch.


**Edit**
Yeah I think I will end up doing that... YAY for lots more work... :S

[tilt]

I'd go with c) eeep
What about throwing out a lot of the ships and leaving in 2-3 making them larger yet? I don't know about what GIMP and the other freeware progs can do - but in Illustrator I would try to trace them and make the line size bigger ... I'll be happy to try one for you to see if it works
But the best, and absolute hardest, solution would be to redraw the map with thinner lines to fit the beautiful ships better, resizing a map upwards always makes problems (in pixels - not in vector).
But looking good and looking forward to see where it goes

[Juggernaut1981]

Chose option c) EEEEEP.

Spent yesterday night and some of today (Monday... go public holidays!!) tracing over the ship diagrams that were scaled up to size. Had a computer implosion this afternoon and lost one of the ship tracings *GRRR* but managed to keep most of the updated ones. Updated version attached.

[Juggernaut1981]

Finished the ships. Now to do town after town after town after town... one small building at a time.

[tilt]

hmmmm... your map ended up inline instead of attached...and its rather big *lol* ... and it only loaded the top 10% ... ships look more in balance with the rest now, did you edit the wheels too - they don't look as blurry?

[Juggernaut1981]

I'm borrowing a trick I saw in a tutorial about creating fake ink-bleed.
The wheels are copied clipart and on a different layer to the ships and haven't had the ink-bleed treatment, unlike the Cartouche and ships.
The ships are on their own layers and then duplicated, blurred w/ 3 or 4 px Gaussian, reduced blurred copy to 60% opacity, merge layers.
Regarding the "in-line" image... it just seems to do that. I'll edit the post.

[Steel General]

I like what you did with with the ships Juggy!

[Juggernaut1981]

Here is the latest version. Started on the city markers. I've taken Ramah's awesome icons, cut & pasted between layers, merged, used them as an outline and then attacked them with an "Ink" brush and "Airbrush" to get the look before transferring them into this file, shrinking them and placing them.

[tilt]

nice city icons, but the same problem as with the ships arises, especially Aldes look a little thin

[Juggernaut1981]

Did some more, noticed the comment about Aldes. It was happening because of image shrinking. To fit the picture as I wanted in the space I wanted I'd have to reduce a much larger image too far. Making the lines thicker at the larger resolution just resulted in lack of defined shape. It's a compromise unfortunately.