How To Make A Fantasy City Map In Photoshop

Wurm Rinstall · 04-23-2007,11:sixteen PM

04-23-2007,11:sixteen PM #i

[Award Winner] Eneini: a medieval city tutorial (in Photoshop)

Okay, friends, as requested I am attaching the first part of my city map tutorial, which shows the process I followed to create Eneini in Photoshop. I hope information technology helps y'all in some small-scale way with your ain endeavors!
Attached is function one of the tutorial. Part 2 will be in the next message.

Relish, & please feel gratuitous to ship me improvements, suggestions, & criticism. Accept intendance!

EDIT xxx Apr 2007: Changed the tutorial to contain no background pattern, to make printing easier & less costly!

Don
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04-23-2007,eleven:18 PM #2

metropolis map tutorial role 2

Here is the 2d half of the tutorial
EDIT 30 Apr 2007: For easier & less-costly abode press, the tutorial background pattern was eliminated.

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04-25-2007,04:fifty PM #7

Originally Posted by RobA

Thanks very much for the tutorials. I had the time to follow them through using the GIMP. I kept a few notes along the way to highlight differences in the applications, merely feel the results turned out satisfactory.

No, thank you for using the tutorial & posting the results. Information technology's nice to know someone else one) tin follow my chickenscratch; and 2) found my 6-fingered, humpbacked brainchild interesting & worthwhile enough to accept the time to use it. Nice work, as well!
I would exist very interested in seeing your GIMP notes--maybe to add together to the original tutorial or perhaps to post as a 2d, separate tutorial for GIMP users. I too have a couple questions nearly your end results in comparing to mine (ex: does GIMP non have the aforementioned filter(due south) as Photoshop?) Would yous be willing to email your notes & ideas to me?

Originally Posted by RobA

The existent trick is in the streets. I found it took an incredibly long time to hand describe in streets. near of mine ended up either too rough, or likewise straight. I recall information technology would be easier with something other than a mouse...maybe I need to buy that graphic tablet...

Yes, tell me almost it, my friend! I tried many, many unlike filters, fills, processes, & combos of all the in a higher place to create the effect without the need to draw in all those streets by hand, but none of them turned out worth a darn. All fell at either end of the spectrum: either too mechanical or besides random.
Drawing those streets with a mouse (and I did information technology with my get-go map, so I know too) is a major pain; the tablet helps a lot. So do lots of breaks. And listening to songs like "Carefree Highway," "On the Road Over again," and "Road 66" over & over again.

On the up-side, a positive aspect of my "artsy fartsy-ish" map style is that I don't demand to become Captain Anal Retentive and sweat over each & every street, simply I can instead "scribble & slash" them to suggest reality. I don't think yours looks at all bad, Rob, but I'd put in most another 50% worth of side streets, alleys, courtyards & such.

Thanks over again to everyone for your compliments; I'k so happy I was able to give you a little something. Again, please permit me know if you detect improvements or can propose ideas.

Accept care,

Don
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04-27-2007,04:17 PM #9

Clever idea, Rob! The mosaic tiles practice not wait bad in the GIMP edition you lot've posted; not bad at all. I think one would still need to hand-depict in nearly of the same alley & sidestreet lines, so I'm non convinced this is a huge fourth dimension saver. Is that assumption right?
Also, after playing with Photoshop a bit I can't seem to reproduce your exact effect, even using the mosaic, mosaic tiles, and other pixelate/texture filters; even with some play adding other filters, etc., the upshot appears too "geometric" in my tests.

Some other choice occurred to me while playing: creating a "buildings" castor that dabs in groups (or lines) of houses; I had thought of this more for villages, where the spaces would be greater, but I wonder if I could brand it work for cities, likewise. I'll have to experiment with that.

Thanks once more, and nice work!

Don
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