[Award Winner] My atlas style in PS

Instead of selecting both, right-click on the "top" one. Merge down should then be an option in the right-click menu.

First post on the forum and I already need help! :P

I've downloaded the pdf of this tutorial and am trying to do it justice, but there is only problem I can't seem to find out how to work around. I already have designed the lineart of my atlas on another PSD file and I'm not keen on straying from my original landmasses and oceans for something completely random that this tutorial offers. So, I was wondering if there is a way to incorporate my own lineart in a layer somewhere somehow and create the same effect on my atlas.

Thanks a lot for an amazing tutorial! :)

Sure there is! Instead of using clouds and a hard mix layer, just import your lineart coastline, and do a fuzzy select to select the sea. Then fill the sea black, invert your selection, fill your land white, and continue from there.

GIMP? How do you import an image from CC2 Pro/CC3 into it and modify the image? Is there a basic "cartographer software user's guide" to GIMP? I would love to be able to add things to/from maps as necessary. As I understand it,

1. You save the file in an extension that GIMP understands (.bmp, .jpeg, etc.)
2. You open this file in GIMP
3.. How do you select what you want to alter?

The tutorials are over my head - they are not sufficiently simple (I may be thick, too); I will have to do the contrast by hand, line by line, if necessary. I appreciate all the guidance I can get!!

Sorpaw