Hi all ...

I've been lurking on the site for more than a year and finally had the time to work on a map. It's for a book in final edit and need something to orient the reader. I've been using Gimp for years and tried to use that for maps but it's hard and not as versatile as PS. After a few false starts with a few other programs, I fixed on CC3 for the attached. If I plan to make maps as beautiful as so many other maps I've seen on this site, I'll need to move to PS.

I have a version of the attached that is strictly the political names and borders. Those names/features are on different "sheets" so that I can make different map versions for close-ups just by selecting different sheets. And the built-in "effects" on CC3 are very convenient. PS and Gimp do that with layers and a major reason why I'll probably stick with these programs. I think that CC3 is helping me learn what is possible with the more powerful Gimp and PS.

(I just noticed the guide to labeling, which if I had read, I'd likely not have started.)
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