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Reply With QuoteI love old map styles. This is cool that you achieved this beautiful effect digitally. Is this Photoshop?
simple wood-cut wave lines tutorial
So, Lezales asked me how I got the coast effects in my current WIP thread, A Political Map Korachan and its environs following the Events of the Great War...WIP (yes, long name, it’s a period thing!) so I thought I’d work up a quick wip for this.
1) Use a white base map. On a new layer on top draw the coastline in a hard black pencil tool. The land part was filled in with black to create a good contrast
2) Select the land and create a new layer (called land) and fill the selection white. Add an outer glow layer style, with the following settings, using a nice blue colour. Add a stroke layer style with the following settings using the same blue.
3) add a new layer and fill it with a striped pattern and add a layer mask, hiding the land area.
4) You’re done!
obviously you can tinker with the outer glow settings to get somthing more to your liking, as well as rasterising the wave lines and blurring and/or distorting them
My W.I.P sterographic Elyden map thread - please check it out and let me know what you think
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I love old map styles. This is cool that you achieved this beautiful effect digitally. Is this Photoshop?
Philip Riggs
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yep, though im sure it can be done with gimp, for instanceOriginally Posted by priggs
My W.I.P sterographic Elyden map thread - please check it out and let me know what you think
my gallery
my worldbuilding and cartographical blog please sub!
I'd been wondering how to do this for a while. Thanks!
thanksshould be simple enough to get done quite quickly
My W.I.P sterographic Elyden map thread - please check it out and let me know what you think
my gallery
my worldbuilding and cartographical blog please sub!
FREAKING BRILLIANT!
I took your TUT and applied it to my WIP and it came out good enough for a first try!
Thanks!
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
Y'know, I actually made a bunch of dungeons using this same technique, though a bit differently. (Albeit color doesn't work very well for them.)
First Ever dungeon map.
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Why not make the orignal in color?!?
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
