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Making Fantasy Mountains: Lessons Learned from Fictional Landscapes

Every culture in history attaches meaning to color. These meanings can be used to evoke emotions in art by using those colors. Kenneth Field’s map of deaths in the Grand Canyon borrows from horror aesthetics to attach a macabre mood to a real place. A bright, bloody red is crucial Read more…

By cchurchill, 10 months1 month ago
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Enhancing Lowland Terrain in Shaded Relief

Introduction In my current work I produce many maps of lowland, riverine regions. As part of producing interesting terrain to support these maps I have developed some tricks to highlight low-lying features that conventional terrain shading might miss. I will share these tricks, along with thoughts I use to guide Read more…

By cchurchill, 11 months2 months ago
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Vintage Shaded Relief in Photoshop Pt. 2: Naturalistic Coloring

As much as the Swiss Style defines antique cartography, it also is not a monolith – nor is it representative of the many other schools of cartography in the 18th – 20th century. As I have continued to experiment with recreating vintage styles in digital maps, I have increasingly become Read more…

By cchurchill, 1 year10 months ago
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Vintage Shaded Relief in Photoshop

In cartography, the Swiss reign supreme. Swiss-style cartography is recognized globally as the standard to match for detail, beauty, and pedigree. Of course, this means everyone else wants to figure out what makes this style work. One of the first Swiss masters was Eduard Imhof ( 25 January 1895 – Read more…

By cchurchill, 2 years1 year ago
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