This is one of several map drawing tutorials I create for , an amazing group that I help grow.

If you used this lesson, tell me, show me, I would really like to see what you came up with! And don't be shy, ask questions too!

For this tutorial you will need a font Booter Zero Five(See the link at the end of the lesson).

This map making tutorial involves (imaginary) maps that look more like fantasy or pirate maps. There are no environmental elements on them. If you want to create a map for your world / just because / or for something else, you will get it, in just one hour of work!

Before we begin... you'll need Photoshop, a map file, and a font (see link at end of tutorial). It would also be a good idea to have on your computer a scanned photo of some landscape that you would like to depict. I used Photoshop CS3 Extended to create my map. I also used brushes for some parts of the work.

STEP 1

Take a close look at this screenshot. Don't forget to Save it As... and create a layer for the background.

STEP 2

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If you have a sketch, scan it or open a photo. Open it in a separate PS file, increase its brightness if necessary (Image – Adjustments – Brighten/Contrast). Insert an image by dragging it onto the map file. You can resize an image in two ways: either by clicking Edit – Transform – Scale, or by holding down the SHIFT key and dragging the diagonal arrows that appear at the corners of the image.

STEP 3

Regardless of whether you imported an image or not, create a new layer on top of the Map layer, grab a brush and start painting your landscape. It's better to make it a little larger than the image itself.

STEP 4

After completing the sketch, take the eraser and go over the outer edges of the sketch. They will be crooked and out of line, so you will need to go over these lines several times to clean everything up. If you want to make islands, make them now.

STEP 5

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Now you can take the quick selection tool and select everything that is outside of your land. After that, we start doing even more erasing; no continent or country is perfectly straight, round or angular. Let's add debris, depressions and cracks all over our map! =P Also, add some less-than-ideal-shaped rivers and lakes. Your people will surely need water to survive!

STEP 6

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Population! Open the Cities group, and make the Capitol...more precisely the Capital (capital mistakenly turned into capitol) and the Town visible. The capital is circled in red. You'll probably have more than one town/city/village/etc., and here's how to duplicate them: second-click on the Town layer and select Duplicate Layer from the list. , which will appear. The new city will appear on top of your original city. Remember this for the next step!

STEP 7

Open the Landscape group. You have a choice of more realistic and hand-drawn objects. To prevent the picture from looking ridiculous, use only one of these styles. You can place these objects wherever you want, and you can also duplicate (multiply) them. When you “plant” trees on your property, place mountains, rocks and forests, and consider the environment if you have not already done so. Civilization and vegetation, for example, tend to appear where there are sources of water. If you need to resize something, use the technique described in STEP 2.

STEP 8

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Open the Text group. It contains the following layers: River/Forest name, Town name, and Continent name. You can use a wider variety of fonts (eg Calibri for forest names, Juice for country names, etc.). The easiest way to make the font fit is to create a duplicate of the original text and change its font. Next, let's play with the effects. In this case, the outer glow and drop shadow look very good here. Don't forget to name all the worlds, continents, countries, regions, states, villages, towns, cities, capitals, oceans, rivers, lakes, mountains and plains. You don't have to name every detail on the map, but it will be annoying.

And you're done! WOW! Well, at least unless you really want to make your card something one-of-a-kind. If you still want...

ACCESS TO A NEW LEVEL IS OPEN!!

Scroll down the page to see the most interesting, but completely optional effects that can be applied to the card.

SUPER-DRUPER EFFECTS

The following is optional, but it contains some information to help improve your map.

Card Paper

If you want more emphasis and texture on your card, you can change the background! First, create a new layer on top of the Map layer. Take a brush, select a white color, and get to work. Personally, I like scatter brushes for this, but you can use any other brushes, for example, with coins, ships, animals, plants, etc.

Pay attention to the screenshot below, where you can see the changes after brushing. If you are using a scatter brush (or any other brushes with unusual patterns), work it over the entire surface of the card so that there are no empty spots.

Add Brightness

Does your map seem not bright enough? Click Image – Adjustments and you will see the following options: Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast and Curves, which are the best adjustment options for our map. Go ahead, experiment! Notice the difference between this screenshot and the one above. Thanks to the Brightness/Contrast correction.

Guide Arrows

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No decent map can do without a compass!

The layer with the Compass (compass) is placed under the group of layers Landscape (landscape). Place it in an area where there is no dry land, adjusting it to size if necessary. I also like to add all sorts of effects to the compass. Experiment! In the screenshot you can see my favorite settings (the words highlighted with a “marker” are the names of various effects).

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A watermark is protection from paranoids (me included). Watermarks can protect your work from theft. If you have your own signature - or even if you want to use your name, email, dA page address - you can add it. Create a new layer (normal or text). All you need to do is add a watermark to a new layer, adjust it to size and reduce the Opacity (Opacity) or leave it as you like. Speaking of watermarks and liking... this entire tutorial is watermarked... don't even think about stealing it!

Also, if you want to create paths and signs on the map to give it a taste of ADVENTURE, just add a new layer on top of the land layer, grab a brush, pick a color close to the color of the map, and paint! You can also use humorous brushes, like the sea dragon in my map.

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MAP IS READY!

Download font Booter Zero Five you can here: You cannot download files from our server
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You can also watch this lesson in video format!

1) We drive the cat away and take a sheet of drawing paper (it’s good when it’s not just whatman paper, but paper with some kind of texture, for example watercolor).

2) To make it convenient for us to draw, and for the pictures to be even and not warped, we stretch the paper onto the tablet. To do this, we soak it well with water, place it on the tablet and smooth it out so that there are no air bubbles left.

3) Fold the edges of the paper and glue them to the tablet with PVA glue, Moment Crystal or Titanium. First glue one side, then the opposite side (pulling slightly). Then glue the remaining two sides one by one.

4) We carefully bend the corners and glue them too.

5) The tablet is stretched and now it needs to be tinted in a pleasant shade of antique parchment.

6) To do this, we go to the bathroom so as not to spread dirt on the desktop. Again we kick out the cat, which managed to move there and is melting on the warm floor.

7) Dilute a concentrated coffee solution in any container. The cheaper the coffee, the better (there is more dye)))

8) We can take a sponge and gently dab coffee all over the paper, but we are real artists, so we just splash the coffee onto the paper and smear it with our hands. Doctor, in this spot I see...

9) The paper on the tablet will appear in small waves, but don’t worry about it – they will smooth out after drying. Our coffee can flow into these waves, so periodically you need to tilt the tablet in different directions, dispersing these puddles.

10) I was too lazy to do this, so the coffee dried out in streaks. Sometimes they are even beautiful, but this time I don’t need them and I smear them with a wet piece of cotton wool.

11) Ha ha! Next, we draw the tablet into rectangles (I chose a size of 85x125 mm) and draw maps (for example, you can take real maps and draw from them, you still won’t get it exactly the same and will have your own author’s interpretation!) First, the most difficult thing - the pictures. We draw with black ink and pen, paint with pencils (or paints, as you prefer). You can use a white pencil to lighten some areas a little (it looks very advantageous on tinted paper). Draw freely and calmly, don’t be shy if you think you’re drawing some kind of nonsense. Believe me, carefully made, even cards will look good with ANY pictures, as long as the king can be distinguished from the queen))) Although in this case there is a letter designation in the corner of the card.

12) In order not to suffer with the second half of the cards, I photographed them and printed them. Next, we transfer them to the tablet in a known way: we shade the reverse side of the picture with a soft pencil, and outline it on top with a pen. The pencil leaves an imprint.

13) To make it even more impressive, draw a golden outline along the edge of the card (with acrylic paint, marker or gel pen). The pencil drawing MUST be fixed with a special aerosol varnish.

14) After the varnish has completely dried, cut off the paper from the tablet.

15) And the sheet turns out perfectly smooth!

16) We pull the tablet again, we need to draw cards with numbers. I am sure that you have never paid attention to how the suit icons are arranged in tens, eights, sixes and other small fry))) We study this issue, draw diagrams for memory.

17) We create a kind of modular grid to help ourselves. Here, by the way, all the peaks are drawn in the same direction and this is an error. One half of the spades should be turned in the opposite direction (crosses and hearts too, but with diamonds it’s all the same, they are symmetrical))).

18) Again we take out black and (mmmmmm!) warm red carmine ink and draw all the digital maps.

19) Next, using a knife and an iron ruler, we separate all the cards from each other. No matter how we measure, they will not turn out perfectly even, do not strive for this.

20) For a card back, you can either draw a picture (then scan and reproduce it) or find a suitable one on the Internet. I found a suitable picture in the patterns on the wallpaper of my kitchen)))

21) We print it on the printer in the amount of 36 pieces (four pieces fit per sheet).

22) Let the size of the shirt be a little larger than the card itself - this way we can better glue the edges. It is convenient to glue with an adhesive stick. But it’s better to take glue from a more expensive brand, so that over time the glue doesn’t dry out and the backs of your cards don’t fly off like autumn leaves. Then we cut off the excess edges with scissors, at the same time rounding the corners of the cards.

23) WE ALWAYS put our cards under the press. Preferably overnight.

The desire of individuals to stand out from the crowd gives rise to an entire field of infrastructure dedicated to the development of unique designs. Unusual cars, interiors, clothes, accessories, and finally, bank cards. It would seem that a bank card is a purely personal thing that should not be
constantly in sight.

How to get a card with your own image in Sberbank

What's the point

However, banks have seized on the demand for cards with personal designs and have begun to actively develop this area. Today, many banks keep up with the times and offer their clients cards with the possibility of applying various logos, drawings, and photographs as images. One of the leaders in such developments is, of course, Sberbank, which issues the largest number of cards in our country.

The very essence of a unique card design lies in a unique image that will be printed instead of the standard one - these can be all kinds of images (about the restrictions below), from pictures of a beautiful sunset to photos of funny cats.

What can be shown on a Sberbank map?

When ordering a card, you will be provided with a whole list of what cannot be portrayed , you need to familiarize yourself with it in detail when applying for a card. Basic prohibitions: trademarks, company abbreviations, numbers, letters, images with bills/coins, cartoon frames, faces of famous people and fictional characters, pictures with associations of drugs, sex, violence, weapons, religion, etc.

Despite such serious restrictions, the bank allows you not only to select a picture from your own gallery, but also allows you to upload your own, no less than 800x600px in size, no more than 10 MB in JPEG or PNG format. The recommended image size is 1035x662px.

Basic conditions and requirements for a card with an individual image from Sberbank:

• Card currency – rubles, dollars, euros;
• Payment system – visa classic;
• Validity period – 3 years;
• Maintenance cost - 750 rubles per year;
• Issue cost - 500 rubles at the time of receipt;
• Possibility of obtaining an overdraft – no;
• Issue as a salary project - no;
• Full functionality and capabilities like a classic bank debit card;
• The card recipient's age is from 18 years (from 10 years as an additional age).

How to get a Sberbank card with an individual design

The procedure for filling out an application on the website is not particularly difficult.

Type www.sberbank.ru in the address bar, click on the “Menu” icon, then “select a card”, and “cards with individual design”.

We get to the image selection pages. Sberbank offers 3 ways to upload images - from a computer, from your own gallery, and also from social networks.

From computer

By selecting this item, you will be taken to the image selection page. We read what cannot be used as an image, agree to the conditions. Click “Download” and select the file on your computer.

The uploaded image goes to the editing page.

Here you can select the color of the bank logo, filters, and also, if necessary, take another image - from the bank gallery, or from a social network account. Here we select the currency of the card.

We enter the phone number and click “Continue” and a rather long questionnaire appears below. The card design goes into the bank's database, and after filling it out, it will be sent for verification. Upon completion of the verification, you will be notified by phone number. At the last stages of filling out the form, you will be asked to select a convenient bank branch where you will need to pick up the ordered card.

After filling out all the fields, click the “Submit” button. That’s it, this completes the procedure for issuing a card with an individual design. All you have to do is wait for a notification on your phone from the bank when the card is ready. You will come to the selected bank branch, sign several documents on the issuance of a debit card and you can start using it.

From the gallery

Here you can select a picture from the gallery offered by the bank. There are plenty of topics here, and all these pictures have already been approved by the bank. That is, they will be 100% approved.

The winter cold outside the window and drifts on the roads are not very pleasing to lovers of active recreation and tourism, but they provide enough time to finally sort out pictures, routes and impressions from past hikes. Therefore, now is the best time to write reports about your adventures and develop routes for the future. Of course, all travelers know and actively use the excellent Google Maps service for these purposes. However, the list of map services does not end there, and in this article you will learn about worthy alternative tools for creating, publishing and analyzing custom maps.

Scribble Maps

What sets Scribble Maps online service apart from many of its competitors is that this service is perfect for both beginners and cartography experts. Its simplicity and functionality make Scribble Maps one of the most popular mapping applications in education and science. The service offers users a wide range of capabilities, including marking maps, measuring distances, importing data in KML format, importing tabular data, applying custom labels, text, images and much more.

Open Street Map

The Open Street Map (OSM) service professes the same principles that formed the basis for the creation of the world famous Wikipedia. All the information here is collected through the efforts of tens of thousands of volunteers who provide the project with data from personal GPS trackers, aerial photographs, video recordings, satellite images and street panoramas. While the accuracy of this data varies greatly by region, it is safe to say that OSM contains more detailed and up-to-date information than Google Maps for some areas.

The map editing function is available to all registered users. You can export data from your GPS device, draw routes manually, place markers, mark interesting and memorable places, give descriptions and comments. It is possible to export maps in OpenStreetMap XML format or as an image (PNG, JPEG, SVG, PD), and you can also get HTML code for inserting into any website.

Build-A-Map

Although Build-A-Map comes across as a little frivolous with its big, flashy icons, it's still a mature tool for creating maps and diagrams. The source of cartographic information here is Google Maps, on top of which the user can create his own layers and apply the necessary data to them.

The Build-A-Map service allows you to add not only banal marks and tracks, but also text labels, circles, polygonal shapes, lightboxes with photographs, plot routes, and so on. To all this, you can add weather information, Google Places points, and pictures from the Panoramio photo hosting site. The map obtained in this way can be saved in the service storage and shown a link to it, or you can receive a code for embedding in a web page.

Tripline

The Tripline service is unlikely to be able to help in developing a route for serious travel, but it is simply ideal for creating a multimedia presentation about the roads traveled. In its work, the service combines three components: a track of your route, photographs and music that best reflects the spirit of your adventure.

By combining all this together, the service will generate a spectacular story about your impressions, during which the viewer will move around the map along the route you took and see photographs linked to the shooting location. All this accompanied by wonderful music, of course. Having spent one effort after your trip on creating such an interactive report, you can paste it onto your page or blog, send it to all your relatives and publish it on social networks.

ZeeMaps

ZeeMaps provides users with a fast and easy way to create and share interactive maps of the world. With its help, you can visualize tracks in KML, KMZ or GeoRSS formats on the map, add your marks and comments. A distinctive feature of this service is the ability to work with tabular data. So, if you have a table with the coordinates of the necessary points or, for example, the residential addresses of your clients, then you can feed this data to ZeeMaps, and it will accurately plot them on the map.

All cards are stored on the service’s servers and can be accessed at any time using a unique link. In addition, it is possible to print the map, save it as an image and receive an html code for embedding in a website or blog.

TripGeo

This service is interesting because it allows you not only to plot a track on a map, but also to see what it will look like in reality. TripGeo uses data from Google Maps and Google Street View and combines them into one interface, allowing you to take a virtual trip along your chosen route.

You will need to indicate the start and finish point, as well as the desired method of transportation (car, bicycle, foot). In addition, you should specify a few more parameters regarding rendering speed and image scale, after which TripGeo will select the optimal trajectory for you and immediately create a special widget in which the lower part will display a map, and the upper part will display a real view of this place. All you have to do is click on the Play button and go on a journey.

The TripGeo service can serve well not only when preparing a trip, allowing you to more accurately find out information about the area, but also if you need a detailed explanation, for example to city guests, of driving directions. Now you don’t have to explain over the phone the signs of the street you need to turn onto, you simply send a link to the route created in TripGeo, and the person will definitely get to their destination.

The QuickMaps service lives up to its name: you can make a map here as quickly as possible. To do this, you don’t even need to register - just come up with a name for the card, a short description and you can get down to business.

Although at first glance it may seem that there are not so many tools here, in fact everything you need is present. You can mark tracks with straight lines or free-hand drawing, make text notes, import KML or GPX files from the Web and upload them from your computer. And in terms of various markers, QuickMaps can give a head start to much more serious services.

Map constructor (Yandex)

This service is part of the Yandex.Maps project and, of course, draws information from there. In many cases, especially when it comes to the territory of Ukraine or Russia, this data may be even more accurate and detailed than that of foreign competitors. The map constructor allows you to plot a route, measure distances, draw polygons, and place points on the map area you need. Markers here can only be of one type, but each can be accompanied by a number and a comment that will appear when you click on the point.

You can save the finished map and immediately receive a code to insert into your website or blog. The service's capabilities are best suited for creating interactive maps that demonstrate, for example, the location of your company or store, a travel route, or a meeting point for a public event.

Animaps

As the creators of the service hint to us in its name, it is used to create animated maps. With its help, you can create a real multimedia presentation, where routes will be drawn according to the scenario you specify, markers will appear and disappear, and photographs and even videos will be shown at the right points. To evaluate the capabilities of the service, it is best to look at one of the maps created by it.

The main feature of this service is that you can use it to fairly accurately display not only the events that happened to you along the way, but also the time dynamics of the trip. Thus, Animaps is probably the most suitable service for creating an interactive report, after viewing which everyone will receive comprehensive information about your trip.

Bing Maps

The Bing Maps mapping service has long been somewhat in the shadow of its main competitor. And it was completely in vain - after the beginning of the friendship between Microsoft and Nokia, this service began to use data from Nokia Maps, which has always been distinguished by good coverage and excellent detail.

Within Bing Maps, the user receives only the minimum functions necessary to build a map, namely placing markers, drawing tracks and polygons with various types of lines, adding photos and comments.

To demonstrate the finished map, you need to save it, after which you can receive a direct link to the map and a code for embedding into any web page.

Conclusion

In this article, we looked at ten services designed for creating, editing and publishing custom maps. They all have their own features and different functionality, so choosing the best one greatly depends on the tasks you face. If you just need to make a driving map for the site, then the easiest and most convenient way is to use the Map Constructor from Yandex or QuickMaps. If you need to make an informative report about your trip, it is better to pay attention to Tripline and Animaps, which allow you not only to attach photos and videos to the track, but also wrap it all in an effective package. Well, for really serious work with maps, you should use Scribble Maps or Open Street Map, which have very rich functionality.

When you need to indicate on a map the real location of an office or some object, the Google Maps service provides you with a very wide range of possibilities. Very often, the style of the card that is inserted on the site does not match the style and color scheme. But this service allows you to change the standard map view, adjust saturation, brightness, add your own marker icon to the map, and so on.

Below are articles where you can choose interesting effects when scrolling your landing page:

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Practical implementation

Stage 1. Structure

Here you only need one common container in which the map itself, the increase/decrease buttons and a line with the address will be placed:

Stage 2. Getting the API Key

Go to this page and get the API key - Get API Key.

Then we insert this API key into the HTML instead of words "YOUR_API_KEY":

To get longitude and latitude, you need to right-click on the desired location on the Google map, and then click “What’s here?” At the bottom you will see a pop-up window where the longitude and latitude will be indicated. You need to transfer them to this file.

JAVASCRIPT CODE

Simply changing the values, experiment and select the type of card that suits you.

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var style= [ ( //Hide road designations on the map featureType: "road.highway" , elementType: "labels" , stylers: [ ( visibility: "off" ) ] ) , ( featureType: "road.highway" , elementType: "geometry.fill" , stylers: [ ( hue: main_color) , ( visibility: "on" ) , ( lightness: brightness_value ) , ( saturation: saturation_value ) ] )

The complete list of all properties is here − Google Maps JavaScript API V3.