I'm writing a book, and I hate hand drawing, so I came here to see how things are done with regards to maps. Unfortunately, I'm not too experienced with GIMP, but I want to create something like this, the map from Oblivion.



My map doesn't need to be just like this one or as good, but I want it to be, at least, similar. Can anyone help a newbie out? I'm looking forward to the process, although so far all I've experienced are these moments: *closes window, GIMP asks whether or not I want to get rid of the changes in the last hour and half, throws temper tantrum* It's been hard.