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It is a pleasure for me to see your artwork - So the praise deserves no doubt my question is probably not that difficult to answer. First, I would be interested in what programs you work and in particular how you do with the lines that go through the picture. It looks a bit like they are lying on a layer below the land mass. Does the hue match the color of the sea and has it brightened? is there something like a glow or blur effect on the lines? and then how you shape the frame. I would like to copy this style for my map which you can find here a thread The archipelago of the tides in Regional/World Mapping. its more a comicstyle^^ other maps of mine u find in in Building/Structure Mapping. thanks for advising me and excuse my language mistakes. English is not my mother tongue ^^
Hey! Don't worry about it. All is well right now. Live for the moment, and everything I love maps, and I love the Guild. At least I was back for your birthday... sort of! Hope you had a great time
Well, this is going to sound incredibly ironic if you've been aware of the horrendous problems I've had at the end of last year with the Creator's Update that was actually an upgrade and obligatory if you already had Win 10 - which was incompatible with my machine, of course... but its actually the Windows patch for the Intel security update that cleared the problem. I'm back again... for now
Happy birthday, Kelleri! Hope you're having a great day.
Happy birthday, Kelleri! Hope you're having a nice day!
I haven't commented on a lot of things I rather like, Kelleri. I'm having serious complications with the latest Intel security update. I'm going to have a lot to catch up with when I get this fixed (if it can be fixed) Maybe help me a bit by giving me a link to it so I can get there fast enough in the odd 5 minutes I get online?
Hey birthday girl Have a good one Kelleri!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KELLERI! Don't know if there was need for caps for all that, but oh well... Hope you have a nice day!
Hey Kelleri I've not been very well for quite a while - 2 bouts of flu followed by complications to the most recent bout. We seem to be breeding some really nasty flu strains these days, and while I'm not old enough to qualify for vaccine yet, I'm certainly not 18 any more! I also discovered that Discord isn't really 'my thing', since I tend to sit and watch for comments rather than getting on with real stuff... like MAPPING! I will try to pop in more often and at least keep up with what everyone else is doing
Thanks for the rep ! Glad you liked it
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