Hello guys, I'm new here and I'm thinking this forum awesome, but I'm newbie at this, this is my second map and I really liked the shape of it but the collors seems very silly to me, how can I improve it?

I want to make this map for a RPG story that I'm writing. I want a desert in the center of the continent, the north must have tons of snow, while the south a lot of forests, the west must have a lot of mountains and one of the islands must have a volcano.

How can I do something like that? http://www.cartographersguild.com/at...chmentid=39813

Also, how can I put nice icons in the map (something like cities, vilages, dungeons, roads, ports, etc).

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