Thanks so much, Ren !
I remember you work on Photoshop as well, so things should be easy to compare. I tend to also have lags issues from time to time, but found a few tricks to avoid them as much as possible, even without touching your hardware. Firstly, it's better if Photoshop is installed on your C: hard-drive (and better if it's a fast one !), but you can also configure it to use other hard-drives if you can (Settings > Working drives or something like that ?). Then, optimise memory (Settings > Performance). In the most recent versions of Photoshop, the grid is awfully laggy, so make sure it's turned off. Because of lag, I learned to work on fewer layers : mostly one for the whole lineart, one for shading, one for light, a few for colors, and I never use fx, both because they can be laggy and because they don't suit my style, except for text and labels. Text and labels are one of the most laggy things for me, so for big maps I tend to merge them in a Smart Object. It's a bit less comfortable to edit, but it's a good workaround to keep your main file as light as possible.
Hope this will help !
(And I don't see any problem to ask here ; if a thread starts elsewhere, I can just say the same things there as well, right ?
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Glad you love the map, Diamond !!
Thanks, Tiana !
Prints always are darker, that's a known fact, but I never noticed any specific troubles with my reds. If you have some, I would recommend to make sure your screen is calibrated with a good sensor. By the way, I always edit the curves when I send maps for printing, so this version I'm posting for digital purposes and the printable version are not the same
Aaah, this giant forest was a challenging one, both to conceive and fill ! That's a lot, a lot of tiny trees...
Glad you're enjoying the map, Arimel ^^