Quote Originally Posted by Steel General View Post
Much better, and I second Ascension's comment on the text glow.
Could you guys be more specific? The ocean ones are, I agree, a bit dark, and the edges too hard. Mostly that's because the solid noise overlay happens to be particularly dark in those spots, though the outline for "Nerath-That-Was" I made darker intentionally to differentiate it a bit. I'm no longer as fond of that now.

As for the parchment...ouch. I thought it looked pretty good, but obviously I'll still be taking a look at RobA's tutorial. In re: woodcut oceans, I've been fooling around with that idea since I saw it in Ascension's tut on antique maps, without much success, but I think I may have found a solution. Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof.