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City Mask Layer Textures

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What is this and how can I use it? These files are meant to be used with my city lights brushes as a background mask layer for night time city lights.

Many years ago I found the pink texture as a cityscape pattern for the Star Wars world of Coruscant. It was rough and it was useful for a while but I needed something more realistic. Sometimes I used the desaturated grey version but it wasn't good enough. I added in the green one because I also add in specs of green farmland around my cities when I do my world maps. Every little bit of detail helps.

When you(the user) wishes to do some research and find night time city lights maps of the Earth, generally what comes up in the sterile white color.. or a messy jpg artifact filled outline of all the continents on a blue background of the earth. But when you actually look at the earth from space, our cities have a warm sodium glow. I wanted to use that color but keep it random enough not to make it a solid yellow.

So what I did was I took a natural color night time shot of London and made it a pattern and took out all black dead space. When used as a pattern coupled with my city brushes as a mask layer, the color effect is very pleasing.

I hope you know how to use MASK layers in Photoshop or related program.
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