In Disbelief...

[The Cartographist]

delgondahntelius - My sentiments were the same when I found this place. It really is a fantastic place to visit.

BTW - How did you come across us?

[Badger]

dunno really ... clickety clickety clickety .... i'm suddenly here... lol... I open up several links at once... I believe that I got here from Grimur's site but when I get into search mode... if you have links in Profantasy's section or any one of their sections... you get the picture. But i'm 80% certain it was mapventure.

Should I have put something/someone down when I was registering? ... I kinda left it blank since I didn't know.. hope I didn't screw someone out of a referral or anything like that...

[NeonKnight]

Welcome aboard. I'd love to see your maps!

p.s.

The Campaign Mapper from the Core Rules2 was my first true mapping software too

[pyrandon]

Welcome, welcome, and weeeeeellcome!

Yours has to be one of the most enthusiastic introductions we've had here at the Guild (although I seem to remember The Cartographist's being about that same--and I hope you also keep up his fine tradition of enthusiastic membership postings as well!)

Posting maps here, unlike most other boards, is very convenient because you can post directly to our boards, not merely from links. Much more convenient for our members that way.

As Gameprinter said, we would love to see your maps--and don't you dare shy away because you're "not professional by any means"! We want to see them either to admire or to help (or, most likely, both!)

So glad you found us. Please let us help you and in return you help us, ok?

[Badger]

Ya, but as anyone here already knows, there isn't much out there in the way of community, not in this fashion that is. Its a helpful community out there, don't get me wrong, but its not near like I've seen here. (in my whole 24 hours, lol) But I've been reading a number of back posts and I'm actually excited about putting some maps up so I can get that feedback thats going to help me improve my command of the programs as well as techniques... How can you not get excited?? I've always had reservations about putting my maps out there... that all went out the window the first couple hours I was here

I've noticed a lot of high quality pics of maps, is the PNG the best format to save to (export), anytime in the past if I did put a map up to a group, it was in jpg or gif to save on file space and up/dn load times.. etc... I usually use PaintShop Pro to handle gif/jpgs Thought I could just go ahead and put up some of my finsished maps and practice CC3 by 'upgrading' those maps as a WIP so I can get some help/hints... etc..

And thanks to everyone so far for the warm reception. I'm sorry that I didn't get here sooner..

[Midgardsormr]

PNG's compression ratios are comparable to jpeg, but it's lossless, so you don't have artifacts or color banding. I'm not 100% clear on how png compression works--I guess I should do some research on that.

[alucard339]

Welcome in our little sect , sorry I mean humble guild of mapper enthusiast, hope to see stuff from u and all the other recent new guys since the beginning of 2008 that I miss (most of u all actually).
It's always fun to get new acolyte from all around the world, with their own background and mapping style.

Sea U A-Round,
Alu.

[RobA]

PNG is fine - you can get a pretty big map up, even given the file limit.

And welcome to the Guild! Hope you enjoy your stay!

-Rob A>