Creating Terrain for 3DGS: by Jeff Frazer                   page: 1 2 3 4 5

Getting Started:
If you haven't already, go ahead and fire-up Photoshop©. Go ahead and set the foreground/background to white/black (D) and open a new file (CTRL-N). I like to set my units to pixels for this kind of work. Make the file 512W and 512H (you can enlarge it later). Create a new layer (CRTL-SHIFT-N) named terrain_01.
new file dialog
On the toolbar, select the airbrush tool and set the options as follows:
  • pressure: 50%
  • fade: 8 steps
  • fade to: transparent
  • brush size: 45
The brush palette is grouped with the colors and swatches if your having trouble finding it. Make sure that your foreground/background is still set to white/black.

Let's start creating

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