There's no better way to go from "crappy" to "work of art" than by posting something here. The specific advice you'll get is worth paying for, and yet it's all offered free of charge. Take advantage!
I approve of these new measures. Good luck in the anti-spam arms race. It always boggles me that the spammers think that forcing themselves somewhere that they're explicitly not wanted will yield viable "customers". If someone kicked in your front door, tied you to a chair and stuffed a sock in your mouth, would you then feel inclined to buy anything from that person?
I have been a low activity lurker. Just looking at the pretty maps for the most part. Although I am also very slowly reading the various tutorials on this site. Perhaps I'll share some of my maps, but they're more examples of how to make crappy maps rather than how to make a map you'd want to show off!
There's no better way to go from "crappy" to "work of art" than by posting something here. The specific advice you'll get is worth paying for, and yet it's all offered free of charge. Take advantage!
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
I am sure there is nothing wrong with lurkers, having been one myself, but , at least in my case, have found that I learn things from even those who start their post with "this is my first map".
And look forward to learning from each new poster.
SeerBlue
SeerBlue is me, but more importantly the Four Happy Carpet Orcs +2 (FHCO +2) are Lizzy (BumbleMouse, 16), Race (Raith Eliathy, 11), Roy (Ol' Horsehair, 9), and Lena Marie (Lemur, 6) Kimi (Whurm,2), and Sachiko (MoMo,1)
All creative inspiration is theirs, from characters to maps to tells, I only fill in the details.
We're glad to offer map resources, tips, tutorials, maps to play with, etc - to everyone, including the lurkers. However... this is a FORUM afterall, forums require participation.
As SeerBlue says, you learn from every post.
Except lurkers don't post... we'd like your participation, please.
GP
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Yeah if I have the nerve to put up a tutorial with the cr#p I've shown here, anybody can. Come on more pretty pictures. At the very least I will be there saying, "Ooh, cool! How'd you do that?"
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Klarr
-How to Fit a Map to a Globe
-Regina, Jewel of the Spinward Main(uvmapping to apply icosahedral projection worldmaps to 3d globes)
-Building a Ridge Heightmap in PS
-Faking Morphological Dilate and Contract with PS
-Editing Noise Into Terrain the Burpwallow Way
-Wilbur is Waldronate's. I'm just a fan.