Your Expert Advice

[Qin]

This is just a base land map. there are no towns or any features yet just wanted to see if you liked the base land map part. This was made in photoshop, I made some clouds the difference clouds, then i just made some new layers, colored the different things accordingly, ( grass, forest, mountain,) then set the layer to overlay. I blurred the color some and thats what i got.

[keithcurtis]

I would suggest desaturizing a bit. The colors, particularly the water blue are very intense. Also, blurring might have been a mistake. The coastlines are kind of indistinct. I think that when you get to the labeling stage, a lot of this will improve dramatically. Words and symbols anchor images very well.