Eino, My First Map

[nai888]

Wow, you did your first tutorial translating it from Gimp to PS? Nice!

Oh, I don't know. I've always found them to be quite similar in design, so I think I've actually probably used more PS tutorials for various things over the years than GIMP ones (wait, that makes me sound like I'm an expert in GIMP because I've been using it for "years." Believe me, I'm not. I just learned what layer masks were yesterday...).

Lexicons are always the hardest part of conlanging. I don't think I've ever gotten more than 200 entries in mine

Yeah, this is the first time that I've ever gotten more than about 100 or so. It's because I finally actually like this one, and I have a fairly thorough derivational system which helps to create lots of words with fewer roots.

My only crit so far is that it's all very faint against the background. Any chance of upping the contrast a bit?

Okay, I'll work on that, thanks!

now you're ready for varying the symbols more so you'll have different looking elements in the map and not just the same element in different sizes.

The only problem I see is that some of the larger trees give the impression that they are mountains. I wouldn't mind the variable tree size so much if they didn't get so huge.

Yeah, the major thing that I dislike about this map is the mountains and forests, but I haven't figured out exactly how to do it much better. The layout of the forests and mountains is pretty much exactly what I had in mind, but I'm not a fan of the symbols, and yeah, they all look the same. That's one of my next projects, along with the compass, scale, labels, and perhaps cities.