[ZNG] FCAP #13 now available!

[ZombieButch]

After a two-week vacation, Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop is back! In this action-packed episode, we'll start a new map by creating a background and saving it as an Action.

You can check out all the FCAP episodes at Revver , YouTube, or via iTunes or Miro .

Don't forget to visit ZombieNirvana.com for this week's show notes and for more information on my upcoming Fantasy Cartography book.

Until next time, thanks for listening, and happy mapping!

 

[dmccoy1693]

These are really cool. I'm just wondering, was there a reason why you didn't emboss the clouds layer before doing the hue saturation as well as make it part of the action? Is there something cool/different you're going to do with it later?

 

[ZombieButch]

These are really cool. I'm just wondering, was there a reason why you didn't emboss the clouds layer before doing the hue saturation as well as make it part of the action? Is there something cool/different you're going to do with it later?

Like I said in the show, for this map I don't really want the background to call attention to itself and distract from the map. On the last one, the background was really part of the map; it was intended to look like a map that'd been drawn on a piece of paper that'd become crumpled and colored with age. This time it's just there to provide a more neutral backing for the map, so short of a bit of tweaking once the map's done I won't be doing anything more with it.

Whenever possible I want to try to cover new ground with each new map I'm covering in the show, too, so I didn't want to just make it a carbon copy of the background from the first couple of episodes!

 

[dmccoy1693]

cool.