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    Quote Originally Posted by jfrazierjr View Post
    No, just the current layer. You can't blur a strict black and white image since it is either black or white. There is no where to put the various shades of grey it would need to complete the blur. Thats why it needs to be converted to greyscale as Rob said.
    But then if I have created the layer "Land" as described in the tut, and then did my trace in black on that layer, filled the trace, and then inverted the colors, as well as ensured the Land layer is current, I should be able to get the blurs?

    'cause that didn't work

    [Edit] OK guys I figured it out = the first time I attempted the tut the top said RGB and then I inserted the tif, which was "indexed" and not "blurable" Once I made the BG RGB as RobA described it all came up roses. Sorta speak

    Thanks for the help guys
    Last edited by Korash; 12-01-2008 at 06:10 PM. Reason: solved

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    Excellent tutorial, you know your a newbie to this stuff when it takes you 15 minutes to find the overlay option in the layers control

    Oh well everyone has to start somewhere.

    Rog.

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    With 17 years of army life behind me, and many of those teaching courses from Basic to officers, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing that is truly idiot proof. Just when you think things could not get any simpler, along comes a bigger idiot.

    To wit:

    After finding out what my problem was with the blur thing, I find myself stuck on the very next step. I think that I did the noise and clip layers properly, but all I get when I slide the output level down is a darker gray layer and the land doesn't show at all. I have tried adjusting the opacity of both of these layers but that didn't turn out too well when it came time to use the wand.

    signed
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    Back to tinkering with it to see if I can figure it out

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    Please note that when using a layer to affect stuff below, that layer should be TRANSPARENT
    Last edited by Korash; 12-02-2008 at 08:45 PM. Reason: DOH!

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    I find a more complicated way to do something simple all the time....or I give up and find there was a simple way to do it all along.

    I'd be a liability in the army

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    sooo cool tutorial!! really awesome!! this is my first time using GIMP (and any layer-drawing program), and this tutorial made my map look so beautiful for me thanks a lot!!!

    check out my map>>


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    Quote Originally Posted by Night Breeze View Post
    sooo cool tutorial!! really awesome!! this is my first time using GIMP (and any layer-drawing program), and this tutorial made my map look so beautiful for me thanks a lot!!!

    check out my map>>
    I really like the color variation in your forests.... they seem to really come to life like few others using this tutorial. Did you do something different? Your mountains could do with a bit more bumpiness though.
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    That's an excellent map for a first try with a raster drawing program! Says much good about the tutorial

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    Quote Originally Posted by jfrazierjr View Post
    I really like the color variation in your forests.... they seem to really come to life like few others using this tutorial. Did you do something different? Your mountains could do with a bit more bumpiness though.
    I really just did what I understood I had to do XD
    maybe I didn't understand it well.... but I also like the way the forest look like that

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    Wow, thanks a lot RobA this tutorial is fantastic. I was afraid to go near GIMP before reading through this and now I'm getting into it. Here's my first attempt, I struggled with the mountains for a long time then got beaten down by the forest. There was almost no way I was getting that forest right and I'm not sure what went wrong. As you can see I tried some techniques a little further down the line as well (didn't get them exactly right either).
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