Thanks Eilathen, I do feel better about it though I'm struggling with the style I want to do for the topography. I'm not really sure what size I should be working with to make this useful for both world and regional maps. Right now it's 6000 by 3000...I think, it might be 7000 but it's not enough resolution I'm finding, maybe vector would be better then it won't matter so much... I do plan on doing a more modern atlas type style with contours though for the base map, but I'd like to be able to do shaded relief and hand drawn styles as well for regional sections and I also want to be able to post it in a resolution that can be seen and not get all fuzzy from shrinking it down. I guess I'll just have to see what my computer will tolerate, I don't imagine my surface will do much more then 10 000 pix without giving me some headache. I think I'll have to experiment a bit with size.