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techniques for painting satmap coast

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so i downloaded a bunch of images off google earth, stiched em together and everythings fine...but the shore around the island is kinda "meh" looking.. if anyone has a good method of cleaning up the coast in photoshop please let me know, im not that good with photoshop (getting better) so the satmap is taking way longer than it probably should have to complete

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You mean cleaning the coast texture? Or aligning the coast to the actual heightmap coast.

Because that would use two diferent thecniques.

If you mean clening the texture, there is no magic button, you must clean it by hand with the eraser tool

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i answered my own question with a bit more research... found a good website that has some tutorials on digital painting im going through right now.. i have a program that can download tiles from different map tile servers, and i can get the highest zoom level possible on google maps, but for the size of the map im planning out, it comes out to just under 1 million tiles that need to be downloaded... so im assuming i should go for one of the lower zoom levels to make it easier for myself.. but im not sure witch would produce the best end result/ easier to work with.

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It depends on what the "zoom levels" in your downloading program equate to in terms of "altitude", but approx 100 meters altitude view works out at roughly a 1 meter/pixel image, which is pretty much the standard resolution for satellite layers.

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i answered my own question with a bit more research... found a good website that has some tutorials on digital painting im going through right now.. i have a program that can download tiles from different map tile servers, and i can get the highest zoom level possible on google maps, but for the size of the map im planning out, it comes out to just under 1 million tiles that need to be downloaded... so im assuming i should go for one of the lower zoom levels to make it easier for myself.. but im not sure witch would produce the best end result/ easier to work with.

Hello Wantafanta. Do you mind sharing the link of the tutorials you mentioned?

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