World Map in Photoshop

[Lexy]

Why do we have to be so logical about it? This is a fantasy world with magic and mayhem and dragons and what not. Why can't there be aq lake with no source?

 

[Calibre]

Oh I agree! A tut. would be absolutely lovely ^^

please?

A tutorial would be very hard as this thing took me ages and presented plenty of difficulties for me!

These are the basic stages I go in.

Create an outline of the map with the various regions included, put just a small outline.

Fill in each area with a key color so I remember which area represents which type of terrain.

Highlight a color on the bottom layer and then add a new layer, paint the same color inside the selection on a new layer.

In the layer options, you need to play with outer bevels, drop shadows and adding textures. Look around on the web for good textures, they are fairly easy to make seamless and assign as a pattern with EDIT - PATTERN.

From there it is just building up layer by layer and mixing terrains together and so forth, I think I had 52 layers when I was finished.