[Competition] War of the Burning Sky Map

HALL · Feb 5, 2007

Alleynbard,
The tutorial is awesome, and a lot simpler than the way I have been doing mountains!

you had made a comment about wanting to add snow caps to them... I captured your final image and did just that. It is pretty simple once you get the hang of it.
1. After you have your mountains down on a New Layer use a soft edged brush, fairly small
3-5 is good, and select your color as white. Trace the ridge of the mountain top.
2. Once traced, use the smudge tool to drag the edges of the now white ridge down the
mountain slope. Do this until it looks good to you.
3. Duplicate the "snow" layer and select the "snow layer" that is under the newly duplicated
"Snow layer" (ie the original) and drop the opacity down to 75%. With the Smudge
Tool, extend the snow a bit further down the slope. this will compose the melting look
in a sec.
4. Under the filter select "Artistic" then "Film Grain" raise the "Grain" and "Highlight Area" to 20
and drop the "intensity" down to 0. This will give you the melting snow look

I hope this all made since. My brain is a bit fried due to lack of sleep.
if you have any questions let me know. Your mapping looks great! Keep pluggin away at CS it can be a bear at times but the things you can do with it is quite amazing.

alleynbard · Feb 5, 2007

HALL said:
Alleynbard,
The tutorial is awesome, and a lot simpler than the way I have been doing mountains! you had made a comment about wanting to add snow caps to them... I captured your final image and did just that. It is pretty simple once you get the hang of it.
1. after you have your mountains down on a New Layer use a soft edged brush, fairly small 3-5 is good...

Excellent, thank you for the suggestion. I'm glad you liked the tutorial. The snow caps do look good with a minimum of fuss. I will be playing around with this more. Thanks again.

By the way, your maps are really nice. Very impressed.

HALL · Feb 5, 2007

Thanks and sorry for cutting that post short and having to re edit, we have 8 cats and one of them is evidently fond of the "Enter" button! :\

alleynbard · Feb 5, 2007

HALL said:
Thanks and sorry for cutting that post short and having to re edit, we have 8 cats and one of them is evidently fond of the "Enter" button! :\

That's cool.

The first time around I said to myself "yes, a small brush, why didn't I think of that" because I was either trying a brush that was too large or a specially shaped one. Nothing turned out quite right. So I tried the small brush and tried it the way I had been doing it. I liked how it looked.

Then I saw the rest and went "ahhh...makes even more sense now. And it looks better."

So I changed my original post to reflect my new revelation.

I understand the whole cat thing as well. I have a cat that loves to help me type.

HALL · Feb 5, 2007

alleynbard said:
That's cool.

The first time around I said to myself "yes, a small brush, why didn't I think of that" because I was either trying a brush that was too large or a specially shaped one. Nothing turned out quite right. So I tried the small brush and tried it the way I had been doing it. I liked how it looked.

Then I saw the rest and went "ahhh...makes even more sense now. And it looks better."

So I changed my original post to reflect my new revelation. .

very cool, glad I could help

alleynbard said:
I understand the whole cat thing as well. I have a cat that loves to help me type.

Ahhhh... a fellow cat lover.... if we could only figure out how to get them to do some real work and start bringing in some $$$ instead of simply running across the keyboard!

HALL · Feb 5, 2007

By the way, a larger version of the map can be found... when you view the map, on the upper right hand corner of the screen you have the option to see it in a larger size-it is huge!

JVisgaitis · Feb 5, 2007

Boy, did I have a lot of fun doing this! Initially I was really ticked and wanted to throw my Wacom Tablet out the window, but I finally got into a groove and found a style and colors that worked. If I was doing this freelance, it would have been much more refined but I'm happy with the end result (and I have work in a couple hours). Thanks for having this contest! I hope everyone enjoys this as much as I enjoyed working on it.

First one is web friendly at 72 DPI and around 800K:
http://www.icirclegames.com/external_images/burningskymap_low.jpg

Second one is a >VERY< highres at 150 DPI and 3 MB:
http://www.icirclegames.com/external_images/burningskymap_fin.jpg

Morrus · Feb 5, 2007

OK, guys, thanks for your entries - the competition is now closed.

Important - please check the map page and make sure all is present and correct. Please check that (a) your map ~~are/is there; (b) it is the correct version of your map; and (c) that it is correctly credited to you. If I've made any mistakes please let me know here before we get onto the winner-choosing stage.~~

~~Good luck everyone!~~

Pbartender · Feb 5, 2007

Morrus said:
OK, guys, thanks for your entries - the competition is now closed.

Important - please check the map page and make sure all is present and correct. Please check that (a) your map ~~are/is there; (b) it is the correct version of your map; and (c) that it is correctly credited to you. If I've made any mistakes please let me know here before we get onto the winner-choosing stage.~~

~~Good luck everyone!~~

~~All's good here.~~

JVisgaitis · Feb 5, 2007

All good. Good luck everyone!

[Competition] War of the Burning Sky Map

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