I have a big mapping project ongoing, but it's so huge and time consuming I decided to do something quick.
This is a lone island group somewhere in warm sea of Gwath Nae.
I have a big mapping project ongoing, but it's so huge and time consuming I decided to do something quick.
This is a lone island group somewhere in warm sea of Gwath Nae.
Nice little map...
My only tenny-tiny nit-pick is it looks like the islands are flating above the water, rather than coming out of it. I wonder if you changed the color of what looks like a stroke on the land masses if it would help (maybe some shade of lt. brown or tan) - just an idea.
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I made a quick solution here...is it better?
In this one I removed the 1px wide stroke from the land mass. Also selected 2px wide coast area where applied blur and lowered opacity by 30%.
That definitely made a difference, you might even be able to increase the blur some - but that's more a matter of taste.
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I have decided to do a active volcano to this island. I have never done that before and I know that it needs some artistic skill which I don't have, but I give it a try. I guess I go first to Google and study the volcano’s we have on earth and then start creating suitable texture.
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I looked at the Hawaiian island volcanoes for my source and then did a mini tut on volcanoes...you can use that as a start but I'm sure you'd have to change it to fit more with your technique.
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For smoke you might think about down loading some cloud brushes (if you don't have some already).
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