Ok, my friend and I are working on a campaign, and I really got into the worldbuilding process. He drew out a simple handdrawn map and I fleshed it out in CC3. I created the map at the world level, and made it HUGE (6000x4800) so that I could create all the way down to the small details and have them on one giant map. I could then zoom in on those countries and print those off as accurate country maps.. complete with cities and towns.. and other landmarks.

Here's the first one:
Designed to be used by the DM and with max detail.. too much detail for any cartographer to have seen in a campaign world. I sent it to the DM at 6000x4800, whereas the resolution you are seeing is merely 1800x1200
No names have yet been placed on the DM's map, as those details haven't truly been hammered out yet, only the country names, and I was kinda sick of messing with CC3 for the time being.

The small island on the bottom left near the scale can be zoomed in to this on the DM's 6000x4800 map:



And furthermore, I created a map for the Players to see. One that would have far less detail than the DM's, but hopefully still be interesting. The map would probably come into their possession in a manner of the DM's choosing. I simply took the 6000x4800 png ran it through photoshop with the photocopy filter with a few tweaks, laid it onto a preexisting background stationary, and did a color blending of it. It came out alright, though the photocopying made some pixelated lines and such.. I'd thought to try charcoal and chalk but that didn't work well, nor did conte crayon. So I simply ended up blending what I could of this. I also went through and gave the map some character with some nifty fonts I got from www.dafont.com (the piratey font for the word "Greana" is "Rapscallion", the other country names are done with "Black Adder" and the bloodstains are the font .. dang forgot what it was. I also used various handwriting fonts for penciled in details on the map).



My biggest problem with all of this is the Player map. During the process of converting from the CC3 map to what I hoped would appear to be somewhat of a hand drawn map, the process seems to have let the light color rivers disappear, since on the CC3 map they are lighter color than the land around them.[/img]