Hey all, long time lurker, first time poster, as well as first map. I'm working on making a satellite photo-style version of a hand drawn map I made for a D&D campaign. I'm currently using World Machine for the heightmap and coloring, and then doing a small bit of post processing in Photoshop. I'm a long way from finished, but I'm at a point now where I feel comfortable asking for critiques on style as well as how believable the map is. For reference, I've included the original hand-drawn map, the first attempt at digitizing it, as well as my current progress on the sat-map style one.

Here's the original map that I drew, I was going for a sort of Tolkien style to it, but I feel like I really missed the mark on that (which is what prompted me to try digitizing it)
handDrawn.png

This next one was the first kinda foray into Photoshop with the map, I changed a lot of things, some of it due to it not being super realistic (the coast-to-coast river, for example), and other things got changed simply because I don't have a scanner, and taking a photo with a camera and tracing it only goes so far.
digitized_001.png

This final image is the pure texture map (with some fake lighting introduced to try to raise up the mountains a little bit) out of World Machine. The things I still want to do is add in some different biomes, there are some desert areas planned where the rain shadow from the mountains would be, the northern side of the continent is planned to be more arid/canyon style terrain, and I also want to add in denser forested areas, as well as bringing the lakes back in.
satMap.png

Thanks for taking the time to look at this, and I'm looking forward to hearing what people think, and what ideas they may have!