There is beauty in every map, and I find it very difficult to choose between them.
The voting wasn't what I had in mind when I joined the Challenge. It was the fact of having taken part in Neyjour's Challenge, since she vanished right in the middle of a private email conversation with me on 9th August, and I've no idea what happened to her.
Neyjour administrates at least two DeviantArt Groups, yet she's vanished there as well. She hasn't appeared anywhere at all in all this time.
So its beginning to look like Gymnopus P might just be my contribution to a set of 15 very beautiful tribute maps.
I'm really pleased with where I came, in fact I'm pretty stunned that I came in that well up the table. Some of the others didn't even get a single vote, poor things!
Still. I certainly caused quite a stir! A couple of the other members didn't realise I was using CC3 till right at the end, which led to a pretty amusing conversation on the competition thread! Stunned shock about sums it up - LOL
One question that arose - is it possible to use a tablet with CC3? I'd never thought of it before, but that would make doing maps like this really quite easy (I have to admit it was pretty difficult with a mouse and a shaky hand!)
Posted By: LoopysueOne question that arose - is it possible to use a tablet with CC3?
Yes, CC3 supports digitizing tablets. I haven't used one personally with CC3, but I have been using a Wacom pen on a touch screen, which works great. (The pens that came with the MS Surface Pro 1 and 2 units were wacom pens. The one I have now with my Surface 4 is not a Wacom pen I believe, but it functions just as well and comes with replaceble tips.) I love putting my surface in a very shallow angle on a table, and draw with the pen. I usually don't do much freehand drawing though, so I can't comment on that, but the pen is nice and precise, and much better than a mouse for many tasks.
I haven't got anything but a mouse, and won't have for some considerable time yet, but the question was asked by another CG member and I thought I should answer it properly when I put the map up on the Finished Maps thread in a couple of days time. ( I think its polite to give the winner a chance to put theirs up first )
My biggest disappointment with CC3's digitizer support is that I can't use it for simple stroking. CC3's paradigm for operations is click-move-click, which is great for precision in CAD but tough for doing sketchy sorts of things (note that the freehand tool works nicely for paths, but it's still very much click-move-click). CC3 also doesn't support any sort of stroke dynamics like variable width along the stroke, which is where the pressure-sensitive and angle-sensitive elements of the tablet really shine.
The modern tablet is a device that's quite a bit different from the original concept of a drafting digitizer. I only tried to set up CC3's digitizer mode one time, and I quickly realized that the modern smallish hand-held tablet wasn't its target audience, but rather a professional draftsman with a table-sized digitizer who was inputting an existing drawing. If I had a tablet that was large enough to hold an entire drawing that I wanted to input, then tablet mode would be an excellent way to do precise input of that drawing. I found it much easier to just leave the tablet in mouse mode for the sorts of things that I did, though.
I would be happy if I could just draw with the freehand tool using an actual pen, rather than a mouse. I'm assuming from what Remy said that this would be possible?
Sue, I have a Wacom Intuos Pro (Medium Size) that I am going to try tonight. My Pen went bad a while ago, and I ordered a new one so I could try the tablet out in CC3. I will let you know how it goes.
That would be great if you could give me a definitive answer about the freehand tool and the Wacom, because that's probably what the person who asked the question uses (most PS users have Wacoms - if the conversations at the Guild are anything to go by)
Congratulations, Loopysue. It's a stunningly beautiful map and, even putting aside the gorgeously rendered landscape, it also emphasizes (or "emphasises" if you prefer) a very skillful, artful application of the limited palette you chose. Also, your choice of palette was also quite skilled. I could easily imagine prints of this map being sold in stores and hanging in homes.
Third is totally excellent... for a CC3 map entered in a Gold Compass Challenge It was up on the board rubbing shoulders with maps made by pros, and using all manner of software, not just PS.
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Good luck to you and your team with the voting on your 35 Anniversary Competition
Thanks kilma.ard.venom
Top notch Sue,
Bill
That's all for this one, though. The Challenge is now closed for voting
There is beauty in every map, and I find it very difficult to choose between them.
The voting wasn't what I had in mind when I joined the Challenge. It was the fact of having taken part in Neyjour's Challenge, since she vanished right in the middle of a private email conversation with me on 9th August, and I've no idea what happened to her.
Neyjour administrates at least two DeviantArt Groups, yet she's vanished there as well. She hasn't appeared anywhere at all in all this time.
So its beginning to look like Gymnopus P might just be my contribution to a set of 15 very beautiful tribute maps.
I'm really pleased with where I came, in fact I'm pretty stunned that I came in that well up the table. Some of the others didn't even get a single vote, poor things!
Still. I certainly caused quite a stir! A couple of the other members didn't realise I was using CC3 till right at the end, which led to a pretty amusing conversation on the competition thread! Stunned shock about sums it up - LOL
One question that arose - is it possible to use a tablet with CC3? I'd never thought of it before, but that would make doing maps like this really quite easy (I have to admit it was pretty difficult with a mouse and a shaky hand!)
LLAP
Nacon4
That gives me hope for my novels! LOL
Do you mind if I quote you on CG?
I haven't got anything but a mouse, and won't have for some considerable time yet, but the question was asked by another CG member and I thought I should answer it properly when I put the map up on the Finished Maps thread in a couple of days time. ( I think its polite to give the winner a chance to put theirs up first
The modern tablet is a device that's quite a bit different from the original concept of a drafting digitizer. I only tried to set up CC3's digitizer mode one time, and I quickly realized that the modern smallish hand-held tablet wasn't its target audience, but rather a professional draftsman with a table-sized digitizer who was inputting an existing drawing. If I had a tablet that was large enough to hold an entire drawing that I wanted to input, then tablet mode would be an excellent way to do precise input of that drawing. I found it much easier to just leave the tablet in mouse mode for the sorts of things that I did, though.
Bill
Bill
That would be great if you could give me a definitive answer about the freehand tool and the Wacom, because that's probably what the person who asked the question uses (most PS users have Wacoms - if the conversations at the Guild are anything to go by)
Brava!
~Dogtag
Third is totally excellent... for a CC3 map entered in a Gold Compass Challenge