Artheane

[jfrazierjr]

Great map!!! Personally, the country dividers get in the way of me seeing the detail of the map, but I can always go back to the WIP to get an unobstructed view.

The one thing that really "wow"ed me about this map though(this will seem kind of silly to some) is the raised lettering. This reminds me of old school topo maps, and I really love the effect (now, if only we could get the mountains to do the same thing...)

[Ascension]

The raised letters was something that I was shooting for, sort look like it was molded plastic. The pic below is my settings for the layer style. Not much to shout about until the secret ingredient was added...I duplicated the layer. Since I use a lot of blending modes this duplicate layer combined with the lower layer and gave it more contrast with the emboss shadow and the light sand turned kind of white since it is set to screen, the terrain shows thru ever so slightly and gives the lettering a bit of rumpledness.