I've been a lurker here for a very very long time finally scraped up enough knowledge from this forum to try making my own map from a book I'm currently working on.

I used Photoshop cs3
along with my own tweaked/Mod versions of mapmaker actions
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3363

then used a few layer modes to get the beginning look was after.

rivers, streams etc is not final I'm currently just mapping where they go the finalized rivers i should have looking far better when finished.



anywho, I thank the many members of this site for the valuable info I've been able to gather here.