Making roads in a boardgame map.

[timallen]

Making nice smooth curved roads in Photoshop can also be done using Paths, which is my preferred way when making strategic scale maps. Its a bit finicky but worth it, IMO. You do this using the Pen tool, making sure you are creating points and not shapes (which you can change at the top of the page). Once you have place a bunch of points down on the map, you can then change the pen tool to Convert Point Tool. You can then click on each point you have make and by holding down the right mouse button you can create road-like curves. Once you like what you see you can left click to "stroke" the path with a brush of your choice. Make sure you do all that on a separate layer. I'm probably not explaining this well... just google "using paths in photoshop" and you will find better explanations.