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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cthuluftaghn" data-source="post: 546879" data-attributes="member: 4799">I already posted this over on the Campaign Art by Malessa thread, but it seems to belong here also.I wish I could post it in it's full size and resolution, but that's too huge.  It's 17x11 (as a two-page spread) and 300 dpi in it's full glory.Anyway, this is the globe for the world of Sprawling Shadows.  The whole world has been over-developed, so all the land is covered by one huge urban landscape.This was all done in Paint Shop Pro.  Started off with a simple ellipse.  I threw in the velvety dark background and made a back glow in white.Then I colored the whole thing blue, using the Ocean texture available in PSP.For the land layer, I took a stark black and white image of a globe of the earth that I snagged of some web site and blew it up real big.  Then, I used a lot of copy and paste, twist, move and warp to piece together my land mass.  I think India and a slightly misplaced and askew South America are the only semi-recognizable areas... if you know what you're looking for.To get the ocean's varying depth effects, I selected the areas outside the land and added a deep inner bevel.  This added the lighter and darker lines that follow the coast.The fun part was adding the city texture to the land masses.  I snagged a satellite photo of Boston off the internet, and I used cloning to make myself a 5" by 5" street pattern... then I used a pattern fill to cover all the land in city streets.I tossed a layer of hot wax over the city, and put an outer bevel on it to make it look raised above the water.  Finally, I did color-to-target to make the deserty areas look deserty, and the more temperate areas have a green tint, and the arctic areas look foggy and white.  Voila!  My first map!....</blockquote>

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