I'm new to the site and have been mapping with CC3 for a short time. I like it a lot but I find myself a bit frustrated with the symbols at times. Particularly when making forests and mountian rnages it always ends up looking like a bunch of cluttered symbols rather than a flowing location (I hope that makes sense).

I thought that if I were to use something like Photoshop it might help me to really get the style I imagine in my head, but I never even touched that software.

I've seen that there is plenty of help and tutorials on how to use it for map making but I need some more basic help.

I have a few questions I was hoping someone could help me with.

Are there different versions of it? Which should I use? Where is the best place to download it? Is it a one time cost or a subscription based software?