Isolden (my 1st world map)

[Neyjour]

I don't know which version of PSP you got, but I use mainly a combination of dropped shadows with a blur (like width 1 px and blur 7 px) on a under layer. It's looking good, I really like the details and the shields fit very well on the map.

Thank you! I'm using X4. I've occasionally put dropshadows on under-layers for battlemap objects (by just duplicating the object/layer)... I don't know why I didn't think to do it with text! Doh. Thanks! I gave it a try, but unfortunately, at such a small font size, there doesn't seem to be much difference. But still, this would be a good way to use different layer modes on just the dropshadows, without it affecting the text!

In all the talk about the labelling yesterday, I forgot to comment on your shields on the map! They look great and I like the brighter colours to make them really pop from the background. I'm loving this map so far.

Thanks so much!

To make the labels of the capital-cities(?) in the colour of the shields is a great idea, it looks really cool! Looking forward to see it on the whole map.

Thank you!


Made a little bit of progress in the past couple days:

* Brightened the shields for Neron and Dehrenhar.

* Re-did all the labels, and I think I'm going to stick with the 3 from my last update. Although, I'm not too sure about the "Kingdom" labels. I may make them straight (and larger) instead of curved, and just use curved labels for the smaller areas/regions.

* Added a few new icons/locations, but I still have some missing labels, and a few more icons/locations I want to add.

* I haven't started on the pirate flags yet, but I've named the factions and put blank placeholders in the regions where they'll go. Poor Isolden is Pirate-infested... Well, except for those regions up North. I think even the pirates are too scared to mess with them.