Highmoon - First attempt at a town map

[Pandora]

The river could perhaps use a contour line to make it stand out a little more among the forest.

[goatdealer]

As always, you comments have helped me develop my maps (and skills).
It was also my thought that the map was too bright but I had no idea on how to darken it, as I almost exclusively use CC3 it was difficult to filter etc.
Ravells comments set me off to find out what desaturate meant in mapping terms with the final conclusion that maybe I need to invest in photoshop.

I sort of got round the problem by adding a grey layer which I then made transparent and blurred. I then finished the whole lot of with a touch of Spatial Matrix Processing to darken the map. I have also added a black blur to the river to make it stand out a bit more.

I think this is a far as Highmoon will go for now, I keep fidlding and its time to move on, as indeed have my players!

[Gandwarf]

Good job, goatdealer. I like how it turned out and I repped you for it.
I still wish you would post a higher resolution version. The map is blurry because it's so small.

Investing time in software like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro is never a bad idea. I saw some great maps which were started in CC3 and then finished in Photoshop.

[ravells]

Glad to be of help! If you don't want to get photoshop, use the GIMP instead, it's a free download and has most of the functionality of photoshop. More than enough for post production on CC3 maps.

[goatdealer]

Thanks to you all for your help and comments. I shall download gimp forthwith (though you do realize it will only lead to me needing more help).

Gandwarf: Many thanks for your rep and and assistance, in regard to the resolution issue, the simple truth of the matter is I don't know how!
I did these images by using the save as rectangular area jpeg option, I also tried screen dumping it but that was worse, is there a better way?

I am happy to send you the original fcw file if you want to see what I am doing wrong!.

[RobA]

Thanks to you all for your help and comments. I shall download gimp forthwith (though you do realize it will only lead to me needing more help).

We've helped a few people get familiar with Gimp, so no worries.

Just post and ask questions if you get stuck.

-Rob A>

[Sagenlicht]

Just stumbeld across this threat

So I tought I'd contribute a second color mod for your map

As RobA allready said, dont be afraid of GIMP or asking questions about it

Edit: added a second mod

[jfrazierjr]

Bah... can I play? Old cloth map version. Added Clothify, then increased brightness, desaturated a bit.

[aiRo25]

All the color tones aside, this is a great first city map! (In my humble, admittedly amateur eye). It's nice enough to just sit back and look at for a while.

[Korash]

We've helped a few people get familiar with Gimp, so no worries.

Just post and ask questions if you get stuck.

-Rob A>

yeah, only helped a "few" people.....

yeeesh, talk about understatement RobA