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Lookout Islands. My winning entry for the September Lite Mapping Challenge.
Mr. Beals, I'm a young adult who just started working on a personal project...kind of a big dream of mine for a while now. A fiction novel of sorts for my friends and family. For this book, I thought it best to put an illustrated map, as many authors do this for reference sake. My research led me to this site while my curiosity led me to this piece of work. I was wondering if there is any possible way I could ask you a few questions. How in the world did you make this map? (I have CS4) Are there any tutorials you'd recommend or can offer? If no answer can be given for either of the above...how much would you ask for your project file of this project? And the permission to edit it so it will not be a total rip-off of this masterpiece. I hope I'm not any bother to you sir - but I deeply admire this creation! Please let me know your thoughts, halfsuperstar@gmail.com