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Sapiento ā Map Making with Sapiento
Published: 2009-07-19 14:00:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 15684; Favourites: 137; Downloads: 441
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A little tutorial how to draw maps with GIMP 2Related content
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Nice tutorial man ! AWESOME STUFF !
One question tho, is gimp better than illustrator or photoshop ?
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Thank you!
It's similar to Photoshop. Illustrator is a vector program, a good free alternative is Inkscape.
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Thanks for the tutorial!
Simple yet useful.
Can we expect an advanced one?
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I have a question, when i do plasma, i get a outline of my island with the plasma colors, what am i doing wrong?
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Maybe a different layer mode setting?
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for the second layer I selected the option for it to be white
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Did you make a selection? Otherwise I have no clue why there should be an outline.
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also, how do you do the opposite affect of the feather to make it less blurry?Ā
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Sharpen. That's a PS command, but there is a similar effect in GIMP.
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well thank you for all the help! here's my first map using your tutorial:Ā tardis218.deviantart.com/art/Gā¦
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Not bad for a first map.
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Admittedly, I don't use much from this tutorial any more. However, it definitely helped me take my maps more seriously than I had been, and was a great starting point to learn from.
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It is indeed a tutorial for beginners. I'm glad it was useful for you.
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I like the edges of the water to the land, i'mma use that one time- this whole tutorial too 
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Thanks for making this, this wouild be most helpful to make maps
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I tried to do this tutorial using Photoshop, but I couldn't figure out how to work it. But GIMP made everything awesome!
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I'm happy that you could use it. PS has the same functions but different names for the commands. You could try to find a 'translator' for GIMP to PS commands.
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Thanks! This gave me a couple of ideas that I might use some day
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Thanx for the tutorial. Has been really helpfull!
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You're welcome! I'm glad you could use it!
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This will be very helpful. Thanks for posting it.
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You're welcome. I hope I see soon a map from you!
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Hey man great tutorial. Very useful! I have a question regarding GIMP though. How do I get the text to curve?
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Hm. There is a 'Text along path' button in the Text tool button. Try this.
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Ok, thanks but when I do that, it only shows the outline of the letters. How do I make them filled in?
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I have no clue at the moment. That's why I use Inkscape. It's much less complicated that the option in GIMP. Sorry that I can't give you more advise.
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This is extremely useful. One question how do you do stripes?, for joint control etc?
Atm I'm jumping between Paint.net and Gimp.
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Stripes? Hm, I'll have to take a look at GIMP.
Maybe you could make the stripes on one layer, select the area where you want to have the stripes on the map and than select-copy the stripes into the selected area. I don't know if this works before I've taken acually a look at GIMP, it's just an idea.
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