Practice map

[CC_JAR]

Oh yea... this is a tremendous improvement. You may want to look at your color scheme next. You have some neon green which I assume is meant to be some forest(perhaps mountainous forests?) and I think this really distracts the eyes (at least mine).

I like the beach effect(really like actually), but am not sure if it's appropriate to the perceived scale of the map. I could be wrong on the scale though, so perhaps you can let us know what the scale should be. Unless the beaches are huge or the scale is in the 20 miles or so range, they would not be visible.

it's not to scale.. scale and me don't get along so well.. heh..

but yeah, I put the coastline in there b/c it looked horrible with the land just dropping off into the sea, especially with the grass texture at the time.

At the scale it's supposed to be, you probably wouldn't even see the coast, or very little at that.