Flaterectomy, it seems that you really can spot other dutch-speakers with frightning accuracy
Thank you both for the suggestions. I'm still spending some thoughts on what to do with the forests to reduce clutter, but making the fade from the coastline more gradual was simple enough and does give a slightly different feel to the map already. (attached)
Rather than reduce forests, I've changed the map to use only shades of green on the land. It does seem easier on the eyes.. though this may be wishful thinking on my part.
But is it still clear enough where the highlands and mountains are? It may be too easy now to confuse the mountains for forests, and the forests for plains..
Definitely still a WIP.
Yeah, it is easier on the eyes, but it does it at the cost of losing the mountains. If I were you, I'd have a look at some of the mountain tutorials in the Tutorials/How-To forum. You should probably have the mountains appear from the heart of the forest where the tree line gives way to the peaks.
First, welcome to The Guild. Second, I'm with SG...lose the black outline...it just jars too much with what is looking nice. Try an inner glow of black, go about 10 pixels and this should give you a nice dark lowlands around the beachfront. The water looks real nice. Land looks good with the varying colors. As for mountains, hit the tuts section and see what kind of style grabs ya. At any rate, this looks nice...you're well on your way to a fine lookin map.
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A big thank you to everyone for providing comments and ideas, your response has been very encouraging.
I'll go for the softer coastline a bit later on to see how I like that.. for now, I'm just posting an alternate look for those mountain areas.
Here is without that black land outline that grabs the attention of so many posters
Hm.. now without the outline to give them body, a few of the smallest islands are just vanishing from sight. Not sure if I am happy with this particular alteration.
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