Quote Originally Posted by damonjynx View Post
Hey Jen,

Very nice piece and super cool concept.

Re the burnt text. I’m not sure how you’re doing it but it looks like a low opacity overlay layer which would be my first step as well. Given the texture of the leather you could also add a displacement filter/layer. Check out Butch Curry’s series, Fantasy Cartography in Adobe Photoshop on YouTube. It is excellent! In one episode he talks about using displacement filters to get his roads following the texture of his ‘paper’ and I think it would help your map. Just follow his steps (save your work with a different name first though, you wouldn’t want to accidentally do something you can’t undo��)
I will definitely check that out, thank you! I also found this non-video tutorial about the displace filter and also this one. I had no idea displacement filters existed, so this is awesome info for me.