Comments on: Drawing The Sea and Coastline For Your Own Map

By: KrillMarx

KrillMarx — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:40:38 +0000

Hi Nate, this is a sick tutorial! Thanks so much! On painting the coast, I found a quicker workaround, though I am an absolute beginner at Photoshop. Copy (Alt+drag) the Alpha mask over from the land layer to the coast layer. Double click the mask. Set transparency to 100%, radius to 10 or so pixels and shift edge to 100+%. Worked a treat!

By: sam

sam — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:54:21 +0000

wow I know how to draw an big,i mean huge picture of coastlines ill post some later

By: Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:53:22 +0000

In reply to David.

Hi David,

Thank you, I’m glad you’re enjoying the tutorials. It looks like I need to update the image links, my file hierarchy changed when I moved the website last year so a few of the images broke. Thought I’d found them all but obviously missed this one. Thanks for pointing it out 🙂

By: David

David — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:46:53 +0000

Hi Nathan! I’m slowly falling in love with your tutorials, but I noticed the images aren’t loading for this one! Do they need to be re-hosted?

By: Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:59:56 +0000

In reply to Jerron.

That’s correct. Not every map needs to show mountains or vegetation. Also the Elfcarron map style is great in that it lends itself to being a great foundation style. What I mean by that is once you have your map at the stage you will be at by step 4 you can then choose a number of different styles of vegetation or mountains. From iconic representation through to realistic.

Therefore I’m not including vegetation or mountain tutorials as part of this series. However, there will be tutorials on both mountains and vegetation in the future.

By: Jerron

Jerron — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:44:08 +0000

So the next and final step will be labelling? Nothing about mountains or vegetation?