The Untamed Lands: Photoshop Test Map

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So, I recently acquired myself a copy of Photoshop and to get myself acquainted with it I mapped the Untamed Lands, the unexplored area at the bottom of my old work-in-progress Calmera map. I didn't want to do the Calmera map itself yet because I knew I would be unsatisfied unless it was perfect, and for a learning experience that wasn't the way to go. So, I made this map over about two weeks in the few hours I get between work and sleep using the Saderan tutorial by Tear. The font is Althea by Paweł Burgiel.

The timeframe of this map is after much of the coast was discovered but before any major exploration of the interior has begun. Explorers have set up a small number of coastal camps (which they call Landings). This will certainly not be the final map of this land, but it is the final version of this map. I'm reasonably happy with it for what it is, an experiment, and I think I'm done fiddling with it. Feel free to give me some comments and advice toward my next project, which will borrow certain features of this map and tutorial, but this map is closed.