Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop 1

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Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop 1

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Personally I will stick with Hexographer and Maptools.
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I watched a lot of those tutorials. Good stuff. I would also search the Cartographer's guild website of tuts. They have a ton of info and tips on that site.

I do most of mapping in Maptool just because it is my gaming enviroment and I am able to edit the map on the fly mid game without having to load a map. The result will not look as nice as maps done in photoshop or gimp with lighting effects and shading, but it gets the job done. See these photos of maps I have done in MT:
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk40 ... Court1.png
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk40 ... /Image.png
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk40 ... eping5.png.

I would use photoshop or gimp to make makes for hand outs or if I was creating my own world. A lot of the techniques shown in photoshop tuts I have stolen, adapted, or applied to Maptool when I create battlemaps.

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