Results 1 to 6 of 6

Thread: Thank You

  1. #1
    Guild Novice
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    5

    Default Thank You

    Greetings all

    I just wanted to thank everyone for making this such a fantastic resource. I'm working on a book at the moment and being directionally challenged thought it would be a good idea to draw a rough map to make sure I didn't get too confused when writing.

    Not having an artistic bone in my body I decided to look for some free map design software and came across a trial version of Ortelius. Trying to figure out how to draw rivers, I stumbled across this site and my mind was blown! I spent a good few hours looking through the beautiful maps that members have created and a monster was born... I dusted off my photoshop and scanned in the outline of my map. Ten hours of confusion whilst trying to work out how to use PS (I've never really used it before), and much studying of the tutorials here I now have the beginnings of a rather nice looking map. Fortunately I have now worked out how to do the basics and so the creation process is beginning to speed up a little.

    Having started off with wanting to create a basic map for my own reference I now feel inspired to create something of beauty that I can put up on my office wall to help me feel inspired in those times when the words are hard to get down.

    I honestly can't say enough good things about this place - I had no idea that cartography was such a huge thing (although being a gamer and huge fan of fantasy I should really have had an inkling lol) but I can completely see why. I stumbled across this site looking for hints and tips but think I may be staying for a long time!

    Looking forward to hanging out with you

    Moombles

  2. #2
    Guild Artisan Clercon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Location
    Eslöv, Sweden
    Posts
    952

    Default

    That's the spirit
    Welcome to the guild and put up your wip (work in progress) for all of us to see and we will gladly come with criticism.
    My finished maps

    Mapping Worlds (My blog about mapping)

    Imaginary maps (My facbook page devoted to mapping)

  3. #3
    Community Leader Facebook Connected tilt's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2010
    Location
    Trelleborg, Sweden
    Posts
    5,784
    Blog Entries
    2

    Default

    hi moombles, welcome to the guild. As Clercon said, put up your map in a WIP thread to get help and critique while you work
    regs tilt
    :: My DnD page Encounter Depot free stuff for your game :: My work page Catapult ::
    :: Finished Maps :: Competion maps - The Island of Dr. Rorshach ::
    :: FREE Tiles - Compasses :: Other Taking a commision - Copyright & Creative Commons ::
    Works under CC licence unless mentioned otherwise

  4. #4
    Administrator Redrobes's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    England
    Posts
    7,193
    Blog Entries
    8

    Default

    Welcome, the dev or representative of Ortelius is a member here. Her name is Dr Jill and a search on the keyword will show up some posts and tutorials about the app. Its been a while since we have seen her post but maybe if you added a post to the end of some of those threads they might get a notification and respond.

    Welcome.

  5. #5
    Guild Novice
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    5

    Default

    Thanks for the warm welcome every one, I don't think I'll be posting up my work for a while yet though as I'm just getting to grips with the software and techniques. I've spent about 8 hours today just fiddling with rivers and trying to work out some forest areas haha. Luckily I'm feeling patient at the moment! I was going to say that I'd post when I'm done but I guess that sort of defeats the purpose of a WIP thread

    Redrobes, it was Dr Jill's posts that came up in my search when I found this site while looking for help with Ortelius so looks like I have her to thank for finding this forum

  6. #6
    Community Leader Facebook Connected Steel General's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Ft. Wayne, IN
    Posts
    9,530

    Default

    Welcome Aboard!
    My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...

    Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.



Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •