Topographic Map Art Inkscape Tutorial
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- Inkscape step-by-step beginner, intermediate tutorial on how to create Topgraphic Map Art using relief map data from maps-for-free.com. Free course includes Paint Bucket Tool selection method to remove background easily from a PNG image. I also cover Color Filter settings to adjust the lightness and contrast of the map download as well as the Quadridtone Fantasy filter to create a surreal color palette. Follow along at your own pace and make something beautiful today.
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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
2:57 Mesh Gradient
4:25 Topographic Map Relief Data from maps-for-free.com
7:26 Paint Bucket Tool- How to Remove Background
10:13 Lightness and Contrast
11:16 Color Filters and Overlays
14:28 Granular Overlay
16:41 Drop Shadows and Blur Effects
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I'm not the only one then, who gets distracted when discovering a new technique.
Simplest of designs can take hours sometimes.
Thanks again Rick, didn't know you could edit a shadow by nodes.
Very helpful thanks mate! 👍🐺👍
Thanks Nik!! I love it when that happens. Haha.
Thanks for continuing to demonstrate the "magic" of Inkscape. Love the idea of a Paintbucket Tutorial. Can't wait for whatever you have next, tho. I know these videos consume a lot of time. Please keep up the great work. It IS appreciated!
Thanks so much!! These have been really fun to make, and I want to do themes that could be helpful. Paint Bucket video it is. I'll start brainstorming on it.
Positive vibes, amazing Inkscape tips, great presentation. Amazing work Rick!
Thank you so much!!
wonderful! you finally did it. I wanted this so much. I've waited a long time. I thought you wouldn't, but here it is. thank you very much. You are the Best.
Thank you!! I'm so happy to hear, and I really appreciate the idea. I'm going to keep playing with this method. Did you have any recommendations on topographic map sources? I checked the ones you suggested but couldn't get full free use.
My new favorite Inkscape channel!
I'm honored! Just trying to keep up with the others.
Thank you for all your help your tutorials are great.
Thanks so much!
Great tips Rick. Looking forward for more bucket fill tool.👍🏻
Thank you!! Already thinking of ideas for it!
Would love to see a paint bucket tutorial! Thank u for ur dedication in making these videos for us :)
Thank you!! I'll put a Paint Bucket tutorial together. Could be fun.
Hey these tutorials are great. Really informative and clear. Could you do one showing how to make product mockups such as putting images on bottles and books. Cheers 👍
underestimated how well this lil tutorial was gonna be
Thank you!
Wonderful work. Well explained, cool editing, crisp voice and video choices. Hope your channel is growing and going well. Best wishes for your future. Love from Italy 💜
Thanks so much!! Trying to grow things.
Wait, what? The paint bucket did an amazing job, considering there were several shades of blue. Thanks so much, as always, for another fantastic video 💯🗺
Haha! Paint Bucket, right!?!? Thanks so much.
Great channel! It's nice that I got here :) You make very good tutorials! I didn't know this method for cutting an object in Inkscape yet. I was able to cut out Sardinia :)
Thank you!! Good old Paint Bucket. I hear Sardinia is nice this time of year.
That’s a way better method than the trace bitmap method I deployed for a pipeline map project (which really slowed down my Inkscape eeekkk). I will give that a go. As always, grazie mille! 🙏🏼
Prego! Hope it helps!
Hey, Pizan! That is gorgeous. I bet it would look really pretty as an embroidery design. I can just save it as an emf or svg, and bring it into Embird. It will come in auto digitized. And then, I can play with the embroidery parameter settings to get a good blending effect. Thanks again.
Thanks!! Great idea, and have fun creating!
Thank you so much for your great tutorial!
I would love to see a paint bucket tutorial.
Send you lots of greetings from Italy.
Thank you!! You have such a beautiful country. I'll get some ideas together for a Paint Bucket video now.
@@IronEchoDesign I'm already looking forward to your next tutorial. Thank you so much!!
Thanks again, and me too!
:D wonderful!
Thank you so much!
@@IronEchoDesign A question for you!
How could I save a repeated pattern as textures?
Grazie :)
Thank you!! Prego!
Love your tutorial, very well explained👍🏼
Thank you so much!
@@IronEchoDesign When trying to get the map from a country, how can I get only the international borders without the internal borders of the states? I’m trying to do Bolivia but there is only one option on the website for boundaries.
I just pulled up maps-for-free for Bolivia. The free program has good relief features, but it doesn't let us overlay country borders at the same time. One method would be to zoom in on Bolivia in the relief view and download the map for the relief data alone. Then click on the country button in the upper left and maps-for-free will give you the outline (with states too though). You can overlay the border map download on top of the relief download so at least you have the topography lined up. Then I would get a clean Bolivia country shape PNG from somewhere on the internet and Object-Set-Clip the relief map. I know this is complicated. Maybe I can revisit this tutorial on the channel and show how to do landlocked locations. Hope this helps!
@@IronEchoDesign Thank you for your help, you are very kind. Greetings from the Heart of South America.
Anytime!
I recently subscribed to your channel and like your tutorials. Does Inkscape have a way to make topographical lines like this video from Adobe Illustrator? Contours and Topography - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial Thank You
Thank you for the great tutorial...... can you please make tutorial for different kind of fur for 2d characters 👍
Thank you for the tutorial! I would actually love to see a tutorial on the paint bucket tool. Every time I try to do this with an image it says I need to click in a 'bounded area' and so I'm obviously doing something wrong, which I'm not sure what that is. 🤔 So a tutorial on this would be great! Thanks again. 👍
Thanks, and great idea! Paint Bucket tool could be a fun tutorial. It's so unruly! I'll play around with some examples and see if I can get something consistent to share.
...... SUPER SUPER I AM ITALIAN !!!!! LIKE !!!!!
Thanks!! I love your country so much!!
Open-sorcery! Great tutorial! I have a question: What are the steps to convert the colour profile to CYMK so I can print it in the printshops?
Thanks!! Open-sorcery- hilarious! Great question about CYMK. There is no direct option inside of Inkscape...yet. From my experience, some print shops will convert for you, others accept RGB, but the absolute best bet is to request a sample no matter what you choose. CYMK printers still have variations in ink, the material it goes on, etc. It's such a great question because it's very relevant to what we do with our designs in the physical world. If any print shop operators are reading, any advice?
Rick, is there any chance you could take up the challenge of creating this topographic map art in Adobe Illustrator?
Tried doing it in Adobe Illustrator but coming up against a lot of stumbling blocks.
Thanks.
I wish I could. One of the reasons I switched from Adobe to Illustrator was to get away from the lifetime subscription model. However, Illustrators is the industry standard and it has a lot of features I miss. Maybe I can cross back over someday. From memory you can map textures in perspective onto shapes and that would be my first approach. Wish I could help l more!
Great tutorial! is it possible to make the landscape appears to pop off the page?
Thanks! I know what you mean about pop off the page. Some of the more powerful topographic map sites allowed for different angles that showed a more dramatic elevation than birds-eye view like what we have with maps-for-free. With more time, you could add more shadowing to the relief, but I think for the true 3D pop-off-the-page look would be easier made with Blender or even Photoshop. I'm very tempted to take a shot at making the look with Blender.
интересно посмотреть на применении к акварели или (и) штриховке
Great tutorials...I am new to Inkscape and i am wondering why it filled all the sections of the image I wanted it to however, when I removed the changed filled color, the color behind it remained LOL
Thanks!! Great question. That's one of the reasons I used to make fun of Paint Bucket. It's creating a new vector object based on the underlying item, like the blue ocean of the map. The new creation can be used to cut out the original source area - which was how I used to do it. Then I discovered the "delete the outside nodes" trick.
I totally would like a tutorial on the paint bucket tool. destouring is so long and annoying to do in PS...
I've been playing around with a Paint Bucket video. It's a pretty useful little tool. If I can get the tutorial right, I'll get one out on the channel!
Thanks for the video! Is there anyway you can show how to setup presets for your documents and export that size for a png? I keep trying to setup a t-shirt template for 4500px by 5400px, but when I save it as a png isn't never the right size. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I hope this makes sense. Thanks!
Thanks, and great question! 4500px by 5400px exporting as PNG. Got it. Go to File- Document Properties. On Custom Size settings, change the Width to 1440.0000 and the height to 1728.0000 in Units: px. Then on when you're on the Export to PNG menu, select Page as the export area. Make sure the image size DPI is 300.00. Inkscape will export your project as a PNG in the correct 4500x5400px format. Let me know if it works properly!
@@IronEchoDesign Thanks! I’ll give it a try!
@@IronEchoDesign it worked! Thank you!
Nice! Glad it worked!
@@IronEchoDesign may I know how you can come up with "Width to 1440.0000 and the height to 1728.0000 in Units: px". Thanks
Rick, may I ask which screen capture software did you use in the video please?
Thanks.
For sure. I'm using Camtasia for the video capture and Snagit for the screen capture.
@@IronEchoDesign Thanks Rick
Anytime!
Hey Rick! Brilliant as always. What is the screenshot tool your are using? Can't say it often enough! Thank you for your time and the awesome work! Grats! 💪👍
Thanks so much!! I'm using Snagit by TechSmith. I came upon it because I use Camtasia for the screen recorder, and they're both made by the same company. Thanks again!
@IronEcho Design sweet, thanks for the quick up on that! I try to copie every video you are making and my skills are getting better by the day! Fantastic! 👍
That's awesome. I love that feeling of progress, you know? The best.
@IronEcho Design yes, this kind of progress is insanely brilliant. I allwys have to smile when you get exited! It's a great feeling when my screen does the same as yours! Doesn't always work with try nr 1! 😅 luckily ctrl+z gives me more tries! 💪😂
Yes and yes!
Can somebody help? I am doing final shadow via Filter Drop shadow and it adds shadow but blurs whole map making it ugly. Do you have an idea why?
I can help! Do you still have one of the green map shapes made earlier in the tutorial?
@@IronEchoDesign yes i have a copy. But i wanted to know if it is normal that shadow filter messes bitmap and can only be applied to vector?
If not, draw a shape that roughly follows along the coastline area where you want the shadow to go. Then drop that new shape one level lower that the good map. You can add your blur to that new shape to create drop shadow effect without having map distorted. Does this help?
@@IronEchoDesign Oh thanks I think I could do it. I just didn't see that ugly blur in your video when you applied shadow filter, so i thought something is wrong on my side.
Yes, you are right! Drop shadow won't work properly on the clipped bitmap image, and blur will only mess up the inside image.
can this type of work be printed? or does it lose quality?
Great question. I've had good luck printing these maps out on a small scale- like stickers and greeting cards. To go full poster size, I would probably go for a higher resolution source image for the relief.
@@IronEchoDesign too bad I wanted to make a poster I followed your tutorial and I think I did a good job, I wanted to create a poster, there are no other services where you can extrapolate images of reliefs?
Nice job with the map. You can experiment with scaling it larger in Inkscape and seeing how the print looks in the real world. I'm actually playing around with making the relief natively in Inkscape. If I get it right, I'll do a follow up video.
Can you make a video on how to created textured backgrounds? Like the one vix has in its videos
Absolutely magnificent! You need Promo`SM!!!