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Episode 8 of Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop is now available! In this episode, you'll learn a quick and easy way to add buildings to your map using the Pen and Line vector drawing tools. You can watch this episode at Revver, YouTube, or via the iTunes Music Store. Make sure you check...

Cool! I'm not sure if you've got Photoshop there, but if you want to get that "movie satellite image" look, you might try adding some Film Grain and overlaying it with a line Halftone Pattern to give it scan lines. Something like this (although keep in mind, this is just a quickie.)

You'll probably have a lot more luck drawing in potential customers if you put up a gallery of samples for folks to peruse rather than requiring that folks email you to see them. There are free solutions for this if you don't want to set up a website of your own.

The second. I think the dark water in the first one just flattens the whole thing; the second pops more. Plus, the water in the second is closer to the color you'd see in an atlas, which is more in line with the look of the rest of the map.

I was in mid-thought formulating pretty much the exact response when I scrolled down to Umbran's. So, ditto.

Thanks! It was set to paths, the pen-in-a-rectangle up in the Options bar.

Episode #7 of the Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop video podcast is now available! In this episode, we're coming into the home stretch on our first map as we combine the Pen and Brush tools to add roads. You can check out the podcast at Revver, YouTube, and the iTunes Music Store...

Thanks! It's a pretty nifty little technique, I think.

The blue was just painted in on a layer behind the lines, just like I painted in the forest color last time. I just used long, horizontal strokes with a soft-edged brush; there's no tricks involved in that one!

New episode of FCAP is up. :) As usual, head over to my site for the scoop!

The jumbo-sized sixth episode of Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop is now available! This week, we take a look at a more advanced technique as we create this rippling water effect. This one ran long, so if you're watching it on YouTube, it's been divided into two parts: Episode 6A...

Oh, and since I haven't posted it here yet... This is the map I showed briefly in the last episode; it's one of the (many!) filler maps I've been working on for the book.

Thanks Joe... you and me both! :) I don't have years and years of experience in the industry or anything, but I've worked on a few projects. I've never been so excited about or worked as hard on any of them as this one!

Zombie Nirvana Games' mapmaking podcast, Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop, is now available at the iTunes Music Store. Hosted by Butch Curry, Fantasy Cartography is a free, weekly video podcast dedicated to bringing viewers an array of tips, tricks, and techniques to create great maps...

I don't want to start talking about release dates til I'm 100% sure I can hit them. Well, 90% at least! "Before the end of summer" is about the closest I'll pin it down right now. :)

I'll make a full announcement about it tomorrow, but in the mean time, here's an iTunes link.... http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=258971490

Not yet, but you can download the .mov files at Revver if want to save a copy on your computer.

Yep; looks like he has an earth layer and a grass layer on top of that. I'd do it as a solid layer of each and then mask out the grass. If you use a soft brush you'd be able to get a nice, natural looking transition. And I'd probably reduce the opacity on the grass to let just a hint of the...

Images like that look great when you have their color to help differentiate different elements, but when you see them in black and white they can get muddy. If you want a map like that to come out a little clearer in B&W, open it up in Photoshop, desaturate it so you'll see what it'll look like...

Chris West is a hard act to follow! :D You'll find that I'll get more into realistic textures and such as the scale of the map gets smaller. (I've got a work-in-progress hermit's cabin over in this thread as an example; I still have a lot of work to do on that one, but it gives you the general...