My first world map - Feedback wanted

[Iggy]

I knew it was a good idea to post this before continuing. Let's see, from the the posts above the comment involves;

- Islands do not look random. Small issue.
- World map projection. Big issue. Current map doesn't simply seem to have one. I was going for flat land at first then I thought a globe world might be better. I searched through Hai-Etlik's topics, found out about Flex Projector, QGIS, and G.Projector. I need to do more research on this subject. The map so far has been made in Photoshop but these aforementioned tools might be better considering the world map projection type. Unless I can find a good Photoshop tutorial on creating a (more or less) believable world map.

The map is purely for reference, to tell you where something is.

I also just added isthmuses to my vocabulary.

Edit;
I found the PS plug in Flexify 2 for map projections giving me these results after changing the map to a 2:1 ratio;

Gilbert globe

Mollweide projection

After some reading on the different map projections I think I'll use Winkel tripel.

Edit 2;
Redesigned the map, here it is in Winkel Tripel;



Flat version