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Creating Ocean Rings Tutorial [GIMP]
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 1:10 pm
by Seamus76
Below is my article from Issue 97 of the Dispatch, hope this can be of use.
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If you have ever been interested in making your own map, or just curious about how some things are done, today I'm going to show you how I did the ocean rings for my new Alaska map. Just like most things I'm sure there are a few ways to do this, using layer masks, and some other tools, so play around with the techniques and see what you can come up with. As per usual, I am using GIMP, but these techniques are probably the same in other programs as well.Alaska I have 5 rings, decreasing from 100%, 100%, 75%, 50%, 30% respectively. here ), and as always if you have any questions just let me know.
Re: Creating Ocean Rings Tutorial [GIMP]
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:39 am
by ManBungalow
A very good tutorial.
Lines such as these are good for setting the perspective. Tighter lines suggest a more 'zoomed out' picture of the area.
I did something similar with the coastline of Mystical Era (see spoiler below).
Only differences really are that I didn't use the border function (I've never actually tried it before)...just grow selection, fill, shrink, delete. Your way seems more simple. Also, I used the feather tool instead of gaussian blur. I don't like the blur operations much.
You can see that I went one step more extreme and added a different colour under the lines here, just to really soften the gradient:
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Granted, the lines I made are of super-low opacity, but that's just what I do.
