Mercator-style maps in Photoshop

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Category : Advice, Props, RPG, RPG tools

At Cartographer’s Guild I discovered a tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to create an antique-looking world map for your fantasy campaign.

Mercatoria

Yesterday I even started to create my own Mercator-style map for my Asecia reboot. I am not quite done, but perhaps you’re interested in the result:

Asecia

Please note, that you have to sign up at the Cartographer’s Guild forum to see the embedded images there. But luckily someone already created a PDF version of the tutorial that I decided to mirror here for your convenience.

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Nifty. Looks good so far.

I’ve been to Cartographer a number of time and am always impressed by their work and their tutorials. Unfortunately, being new to the whole world design aspect, I’m a little leery of designing my own world maps as I’m still working out how best to lay out things (Like people and nations.

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Very cool post. I’ll definitely be using this when I start running steady games again.

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Great maps. I have to visit the Cartographers Guild more often.

Oh nice! Thanks for the links. I’ll be messing with that for a while.
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