City Map First Attempt

[XCali]

Hi!

I saw this one for a while now. I wanted to give feedback so badly the last while, but alas, this is so far removed from the styles and techniques I know.
Anyway, I wanted to wish you good luck and hope you have fun with this one.
City maps are quite the challenge I must admit. It takes patience to see through, so I do hope you can get through the frustrating parts of city maps and continue to improve this one.

I will say two things, one it is kind of hard to see what you are up to with such tiny preview images. So, making a bit bigger might help in seeing where you are going with things.
Two, I know you put in another map before this one, I do think focusing on one and figuring it out as you go is better than spreading yourself thin over multiple maps. Though, I myself do sometimes take a day off to experiment on other things to get my brain fresh before I go on with my main map. It is just a suggestion, but if you have big breakthroughs with one map, the next time the things you learned from polishing and maybe finishing a map will make the following project run more smoothly.

Most importantly, have fun.

P.S. I take it that tutorial you are doing has a layer effect that comes into play later on?

[nwisth]

Hi! Cool start. Photoshop never ceases to reveal fresh secrets! The terrain or the river looks like it has a stroke effect on it - that should be the faint outline you're seeing. If you turn that off, it ought to go away.

-Niels