The Knotted World

[Sular]

Another test of the forests.

I've added a green drop shadow to the forests as the way I made the brush for them makes it somewhat difficult to change the shading. They're just little black lines really.

[Javen]

City states are hard at small scale.
When I've had to deal with them (though usually it's a more modern look), I make a two-part thing. Assuming you have Photoshop and Illustrator, you can make vector borders (I like dotted ones, but it's all preferential) in Illustrator and then pull them over. I've never tried it, but I'm pretty sure the pen tool in Photoshop could work. If I have to deal with stuff on the coast, I tend to make a new layer with the borders imposed on the flattened image (On the mac: command-option-shift-E, I believe PCs: ctrl-option-shift-E) and use the magic wand.
Afterwards, you can use the stroke option. At such small scale, you want to use low pixel size.