Map of Serth

[mad_computer_user]

Hi

I have recently started work on my first map made entirely in photoshop. It is a map of Serth, the world that my horror RPG takes place in.

What iv done:
drawn outline
put on parchment

Still to do:
add mountains
add forest
add places
add labels
add measure
add compass

Image:


Any C&C on what i can change/improve would be appreciated

thanks
Keeghan

[Steel General]

The weathered parchment is fantastic, and it looks like the paper is sitting on a slightly tilted blotter or something. Looking forward to seeing more.

[Vernon]

The paper is top notch.

[mad_computer_user]

thanks guys, im a bit worried about the coast lines, they just look a bit, odd, what do you kind people think?

[Patrakis]

The coast lines is on apr with the fact that it's sitting on an old, weathered piece of parchment. One could deduce that it was done in a time when knowledge of cartography was at it begining. This would be a very nice handout to the players i think.

Pat

[mmmmmpig]

I think the coast lines could use some smoothing. They seem to be almost pixelated and blocky. Zoom way the hell in and smooth the buggers out. Also I would suggest some line width variation as well. That might authentic it up a bit as well.

Great parchment texture though.

[mad_computer_user]

smoothing... yes, good idea, ill try that, and its pixelated, because... i enlarged it, about 300% from its origanal to put it onto parchment and ;line width varyation, as in, make some parts of the line thicker? ok, i guess that would make it look for like it was drawn with a calligraphy pen, i have a reall dip pen blah blah thing, so ill spend a bi of time drawing lines, and see what they look like, and try recreate it thankls everyone for the encoraging words

[Gamerprinter]

i enlarged it, about 300% from its origanal to put it onto parchment

Never do that. If that's a hand-drawing you started with, just scan it at higher resolution, so you don't have to enlarge to fit the parchment. You can always reduce from a high resolution down to a lesser one. You'll only get problems doing it the other way around.

Otherwise, I see a nice start and no ones given you any "Rep" yet, so I did.

GP

[mad_computer_user]

YAY rep thanks man. and its not hand drawn, i made it in photoshop, but made it to small, i wanted a larger map, so i just enlarged it. I think i still have the ORIGANAL psd file, which if i enlarge, wont matter... though, ill need to then redo the:
blur
fading
rotating of land

but that will only take about 20 mins, ill do that.

EDIT: BLURGH!!! i dont have the file any more not fair... hmm, what shall i do? i could redraw, but i like it the way it is, what do you people think?

[MountZionRyan]

It almost looks "stretched" left-right. I think this is because all the long lines are horizontal.

Some suggestions
-Turn the peninsula in the upper left corner 90 deg. so that it has a vertical orientation
-Do the same with some of the islands.
-Or, scale the whole thing down so that it is narrower.

Or do what your creative inner eye tells you to do and ignore this stranger. ;-)