Williamtown. Early 1800's style port map

[pyrandon]

(I need to drastically improve my PS skills.)

Take a number & get in line. Me too!!

... You mention the crease in the paper... how would you bring that up through the other drawing layers in PS? I tried to get that by placing it on a separate layer, but it just ended up looking fake.

There are a few ways you can do it. First I need to know how you inserted it: It is a separate element from both the paper & the map, or is it a part of the paper layer?

First, you can make sure the blending mode of the actual city drawing layer is set to "multiply". Also/instead, (if you layers stack up right) for even more "pop" you can use a displacement filter. (Butch Curry does a fine job of explaining this on his "Fantasy Cartography Podcast #10" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDtNQpxj3Iw). )

There are other techniques, too (like Apply Image & channels), but rarely do you need to for just a crease.

I hope this helps at least a bit!