Thanks for the tips. I added the drop shadows as well as a compass I found in the challenge section. Wow were there ever some great entries for that. Here's the latest version of my map with the compass and shadows. I'm going to change the text for Oakhurst... it's just temporary for now.



I was hoping to add some subtle variation in the land so it doesn't look quite so flat and artificial. Is there a good tutorial on how to do that somewhere? I spent several hours yesterday going through the tutorials section but there are so many that it's hard to find what you want. (Even when searching.)

Any other suggestions of course would be appreciated. Man I feel like this thread should almost be moved to another forum as it's moving away from the hello topic.