Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop 3

[Demonbane41276]

Absolutely amazing thanks for the upload

[allegraissmart]

Laugh all you want, but....

Is it possible to get anything of this detail in Paint?

Otherwise I'll just download gimp

[ZombieNirvana]

Well, using a Wacom tablet really helps! If you don't have access to one, though, you might try drawing everything in first with the Pen tool and then Stroking the lines.

[sakugaaruto]

dude these tutorials are great. are there any tutorials like these for gimp because im using gimp and it's hard to create the same effects

[BrotherGlenn]

For some reason, when I paint in my tree pattern onto the aged paper, it comes in brown instead of black. It looks really good, actually, but I just don't know why it's different than yours because I think I'm following you step by step. When I paint in the trees, why would they be a different color than black? The opacity is at 100%, I worked in grayscale just like you did. I'm confused.

Thanks a lot for making these videos, they're great!

[ZombieNirvana]

I can't say for sure, but you might check the blend mode for your pattern layer.

[PsycoCruser]

Excellent tutorials dude, I've learned a lot with this!! It's amazing how many things the Photoshop 7 can do... And I thought I have seen all with the Macromedia Fireworks...

Anyway, I have a question: Would it be possible to make an already made map (I used Campaign Cartographer 2) look old, scratched, just like the one you created for this toturial??? You know, with all those cool features the old, fantasy Tolkien maps have...

[UndeadCheesecake]

Very clever

[Sacmanis]

Why is my resolution so poor on the pattern? When I produced the original pattern image, I used 1" x 1" with a 1000DPI resolution. I couldn't see what you used and you didn't say a number. When I put the pattern on the map document and scale it down, I zoom in and the resolution is extremely poor.

[ZombieNirvana]

I did mine at 600 DPI; the resolution you want to use for your own pattern will really depend on what resolution you're making your map at. The maps I create for the podcast are only 150 DPI, since anything higher than that won't really look any better on the video anyway! I usually make my patterns at a DPI 3 or 4 times that of my original document. Hope that helps!