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Published: 2013-03-31 17:05:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 28786; Favourites: 271; Downloads: 485
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This is a tutorial for making maps. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me here or send me a PM. The finished product will be uploaded separately.Related content
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Awesome! A bit of a weird question (and believe me, I know you've gotten WAY too many questions about this), but how did you make the dark red line the mark the international border of Austria-Hungary? I've tried doing something similar, but it always traces the entire shapeβcoastlines included, which I don't want.
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Hey, what do you mean with trace all land areas?
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I'm not going to be doing this on photoshop!
But let's see if I can do it altogether! Thanks Blomma!
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Edit: Never mind, I figured it out for myself. Really, this tutorial is amazing to the point I wish I could pay you for it.
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On Step 2, how do you use the blending options only for the traced regions? It only lets me use the blend options for the entire layer, thus making the border of the map my desired effect.
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I've got Ai and Ps today and I wanted to ask you if its possible to make a maps like this without Ps because I feel that I'm stuck with vector graphic softwares.
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What you could do is trace it with the pen tool, right click when it is done, click on "make selection" and that will give you a selection of the area you just traced. Another option is to use the polygonal lasso too, thought I have personally not had much luck with it.
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For the first question, I use the pen tool to trace and then right click and click "fill path".
Not sure what you mean in your second question. Can you elaborate?
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Regular pen tool. If you zoom in you don't need to bend the anchor points because they will be so small anyway. After you've finished one path, right click and click "fill path" and then "delete path" to get it on a normal layer.
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I used your tutorial.
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I think I will use this tutorial for one of my maps.
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Which tool/pen exactly do I use for tracing?
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It's simply called "pen tool".
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Excellent tutorial! I am very comfortable in Illustrator, but not so much Photoshop. This should help me get out there some more. Just one question: is the pencil tracing with lasso? I have always just used the Pen tool and regarded the Pencil something relegated to rough sketching.
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The pencil sketching is done with the pencil tool, not the lasso. That is, if you are referring to the sketching of national borders?
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Question: with what tool do you sketch the nation borders and with what tool do you cut them out?
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Pencil tool for the first question, pen tool or polygonal lasso tool for the second.
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Never mind, I found it.
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Was there an exact year on the ethnic map?
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Very nice. I always wanted to try a map so now I can
I majorly use inkscape. Do you think it's relateable?
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I honestly have no idea, sorry. But they should have the same basic abilities and such, hopefully you'll get around with it
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Well, I did 
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because of this tutorial i got photoshop lol. thanks!
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Nice job explaining the photoshop techniques.
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Really excellent tutorial! I may very well take some inspiration from this tutorial in the future. Thanks!
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Wonderful tutorial, thank you very much for sharing!
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No problem, I hope it will help a lot of people!
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What programme are you using? Would the same work in GIMP?
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Never mind, it's all in the text. Nice tute.
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I used Photoshop and Illustrator. I have no experience with any other programmes so unfortunately I have no idea how to work in them, sorry.
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