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    Welcome to the Guild!

    Many of us use hand-drawn work in conjunction with software - I do with Xara Xtreme as my app of choice, so you don't have to forget about hand-drawing. Some of us have drawing tablets which let them "hand-draw" right into their app of choice. Check out any of Torstan's maps, that's what he does, but uses The GIMP software (open source image editor). While many lack the skill in hand-drawing, knowing the various techniques in applications like CC3, The GIMP, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape and a host of other apps, making great maps can be done if you learn the right techniques.

    As Torstan mentioned, jump into the tutorials and start using them, they'll teach you lots of techniques with whatever software you are using. Many have mentioned that The GIMP tutorials offer more education on using that app, then any other tutorial - and these tuts are about mapping only.

    Lots to see and do - check out our monthly challenges, the next Lite Challenge has just started so maybe join in and try designing a map with a specific theme in mind and a 25 day restriction on when the map must be completed. Its a great way to learn software.

    Nice map - have some REP!

    GP
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