Quote Originally Posted by jfrazierjr View Post
Yep.. much better.... tip: the smudge tool is my favorite item in GIMP. I personally would still like all of the water shifted a bit more in shade, but that's just me.
I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by 'in shade'. darker?
Quote Originally Posted by jfrazierjr View Post
BTW, the change to add the parchment texture instead of the flat green, I can't even being to express how much that one little change has made this map so much better.
Yeah - once I put the parchment as a layer and cleaned up the mountain range - it just looks so much more like a hand-drawn map. I think that I'm going to continue with using that parchment as the basis for my additional maps with the idea that someone has made the map in black ink (to show the basic features) and then gone back over it with watercolors to show features like forests, rivers and water.

Has anyone else tried that 'look' of watercolor over ink?