Thanks for the positive feedback. As a note, there will be more cities and locales added, I just wanted to get the capitals and countries on there for the first draft.
The title font ("Bloodmyr") is called Caeldera, if memory serves (I don't have my full list of fonts here, at work at the moment). It's a popular fantasy font, I'm sure others easily recognize it. (http://www.getfreefonts.info/free_font.caeldera.html)
The cities' names are done in a standard Windows font Trajan Pro. Actually, I went ahead and googled it, and it appears to be an Adobe font. (http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/stor...kage&code=1724)
The country names were done with Fiolex Mephisto (http://www.dafont.com/fiolex-mephisto.font).
The symbols came from the AutoRealm font, as referenced here in the forums. (Thanks to whoever made that one and to whoever found it)
My plans for the map now are to add the cities and towns to the map. I would like suggestions for the road network. I still haven't decided if I will do the road network, unsure if it will be useful or necessary, and may clutter up the map too much. I definitely don't want to lose any of the visual quality from the map, being that the terrain is so nice. Maybe just the major highways?
Edit: I also wanted to note a couple of changed I made from Ascension's tutorial, just as a matter of preference and to explain my methods to anyone who noticed the difference or wanted to make something the same way I did.
1. The "borders" layer is basically a 1-pixel wide line that divides up the countries that allows you to find them, make selections, and make your inner glow for your country borders. When you Ctrl+Click the borders layer with one of your country layers selected, it makes the 1 pixel selection where borders are. I decided I wanted more defined borders, so I expanded that selection by two pixels. As you can see from the image, the borders are slightly wider and more prominent, and you can see the rivers that form borders a little better than if the glows were on top of them.
2. Again, with the borders, I didn't delete my 1-pixel black lines. I changed the opacity down (I believe to 25%), giving it a kind of black line in the middle of the borders, making them a little more prominent on the map. You can see the black line of the border between Sorbia and Gotland in the middle-north of the map (and other places where there is not a river or mountain range).
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