I think you did a great job with it
I think you did a great job with it
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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Thanks a lot! But I couldn't have done it without your tutorial. I am a total newbie when it comes to mapmaking with Photoshop. This is actually the first map I did in PS.
Nice work on the parchment!
I've been trying the same tutorial in GIMP myself, but got stuck with the edges. Any tips on how you made yours?^^
Make a Cloud Noise layer of maximum detail and size (15 detail, 16 X & Y). Turn off visibility for it, you don't need to see it. On your parchment/parchment's layer mask, do a Filter -> Map -> Displacement for -20 X and 20 Y, with the Cloud Noise layer you just made selected for both. Go back and do it again with 20 X and -20 Y, this should give you torn looking, irregular edges. There might be a couple of little bits and pieces that aren't actually attached to the main body of the parchment, you can clean that up by showing the layer mask and then using a black pencil to knock out the stray white bits.Originally Posted by Leonal
Edit: I finished the parchment map, it borrows a number of techniques from both you and RobA. Seeing as I posted my first progress here, I thought I'd let people know how it turned out. It still needs cities, and names for terrain features, but right now it really just needed to have the country names so it could go on the cover of a little .pdf booklet I'm making for an RL campaign.
Also, I've liked the look of the map now that I'm playing with layer modes a bit. I think I'll be able to come remarkably close to the look of this photoshop version with some time and effort. I'm restarting on a new map to alleviate my frustrations with being dumb and forgetting to put the mountains and whatnot on their own layers.
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Last edited by Alecthar; 06-23-2009 at 09:12 AM.
Sorry to necro this thread, but...
I am trying to get the wood cut effect and I don't think it is working at all.
I have created a 6x1 3b 3w pattern and followed the instructions, and ever time it turns out like this.
The ripple never looks wavy and the effect just looks wrong.
Can someone help me pretty please and tell me what I am doing wrong?
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Are you using ripple or ocean ripple? Ocean ripple gives a much different effect, more like beveled round-corner squares (if you've ever watched the series "20th Century Battlefields" on the Military Channel they do their oceans with an ocean ripple effect). Ripple will produce waves and then there's also the wave filter that has about a million different possible outcomes what with all of its sliders and number-input boxes.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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Am using Ripple, not Ocean Ripple.
Should I use Ocean Ripple instead?
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No. I've no idea what's going on here.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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Could it be the pattern I am using?
It is 6 tall and 1 wide, with black and white alternating... is that maybe not the right way to do that pattern?
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I was just checking that, it seems fine. Shoot me a screenie showing your ripple window open so that I can see the settings.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
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