Newb with Map

[töff]

I also like the black sea. I'm not sure I've seen one before! (Surely there must be many maps with black seas ...?)

[Kingbreaker]

I also like the black sea. I'm not sure I've seen one before! (Surely there must be many maps with black seas ...?)

Hrrrrm. . . to my eyes on my monitor it's a deep blue. . . maybe I'm more colorblind than I thought

[Feralspirit]

Hey, first off, welcome to the guild! I figured someone other than Toff should chime in. Second, it's a very nice map, a unique style to use the wood grain, though I must agree with Toff that it's not working well in quadrants. Maybe one grain to represent plains. Being Red-Green deficient myself (the most common form of color-blindness, as I understand it) I was thinking of trying alternates to colored height-fields, but I've been trying to learn more basic steps in digital cartography before moving into 'my own voice', so to speak. You seem well on your way, look forward to seeing more or different solutions to the color issue. Have some rep for a nice and unusual styled map for your first post. Cheers, and Happy Mapping!

(Yeah, I see blue, dark, but blue.)

[Fabrice]

Welcome to the Guild!

I would vote for dark blue too...

[Ascension]

Nice map, cool idea. If you were to ever take this style further and develop it in say a 3d program that might look uber cool...3d mountains sitting atop a wood table. Conversely, if you wanted it to look like it was carved out of one piece of wood then a pillow emboss on the mountains might be a good idea instead of the drop shadow + inner chisel bevel. Maybe add some dark brown outer glow to the text/icons to make it look like it was burned in. All in all, pretty nice and I'm sure in time you will develop/refine it even more...nice job.