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Ye Olde Mappe Tutorial
Published: 2012-03-03 05:24:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 64157; Favourites: 4125; Downloads: 1645
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The promised tutorial on how I make my maps! If you have any questions, just ask
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Thanks! I'll link you back to whatever I make
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Hi, your stock has been featured here: [link] Hope you don't mind
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Oh, excellent selection! Thanks for featuring my tutorial - seems sort of tacked on there at the end XD
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To be honest i don't normally add tutorials unless they are suggested because i don't often use them, but this one did stand out to me. And this is one i may use in the future
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Excellent! Hope it goes well for you
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Bookmarking in case I ever need to make and old style map! Heck, even just to try it out. It looks like it'll be fun to make!
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Heh, cool! Can't hurt to be safe
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Thanks a lot! Good luck with it
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This is just terrific! x3 Thanks for such a nice tutorial!
*rubs hands* This will come in handy *U*
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Thanks a lot! And you're welcome. Good luck
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Neato! I've never used Photoshop but I have artistic ability. Do you think I could still follow this and get a decent result?
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I definitely think you could
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Cool! I'll mess around with it and go through the motions, see what I come up with first. Then we can go for round two after I have something to ask about. Sound good?
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Certainly
As for layers, if the layer tab isn't already open, you can go to Window > Layers to show it. It'll have a little drop-down menu that's defaulted to Normal for each layer - that's the blending mode for the layer, which affects the appearance of layers it's on top of. Pretty much everything for my map is on its own little layer, meaning you can mess with it by itself without messing anything else up.
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This tutorial is absolutely fabulous. Thanks so much for the walkthrough.
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Thank you so much! I'm glad you think so
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very unique and creative tutorial! Congrats on the DD!
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Wow! This is an impressive tutorial. Easy to follow and some really grand advice. I'll certainly be using it for an upcoming map I'm working on.
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Oh, excellent! I'm always afraid I'll either be too vague, or go into unnecessary detail (or both XD). Thanks a lot, and best of luck to you! I'd love to see how it turns out
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It was spot on! Probably one of the best map tutorials I've seen.
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Wow, thanks again! Very flattered
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Oh my... I LOVE you right now 
Been trying to figure out how to make an "old" map for months now! 
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Heh, awesome! Lemme know how it goes!
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Will do, and again, thank you very much
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Thank YOU! And you're super welcome
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cool tutorial
I'm going to try how it looks
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Cool! Thanks
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That looks great! Good for you
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Awesum tutorial!
Just a thing I needed!
Thanx!
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Very nice tutorial, could you reply what resolution you draw these in?
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Thanks! All things considered, they're still on the "smallish" end. The World of Oakvale map was 4000x2666, and the Turzel and Paruda map were 3000x2000, I believe. I don't think you'll want to go too much smaller than that, unless you don't intend to have a lot of detail
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Thanks so much for reply
I'll definatly gonna try making one for the game I am developing
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Awesome! Hope it turns out well
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Yeah, they're more work than it looks! Nicely done
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For next time, maybe work on making the land shapes a little more organic/natural looking? Or rather, the central body of water seems to make a rather notable star shape into the landmasses around it, plus the star-shaped continent in the middle - maybe this is intentional, but it makes the design look more contrived than natural.
Again, if it was intentional, that's fine, but that's the main thing that jumps to mind.
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Indeed it was intended due to story I'm working on
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