South Eporue Map

[LordCartoart]

Ah, that worked .

WIP.jpg

About redoing the parchment texture, I think I'll just use one your free textures, Mouse, they look very good.

[Mouse]

I'm having a bit of trouble reading some of the labels where the background interferes with it, but I don't think adding a glow or anything is really the answer.

Maybe Kacey, or one of the PS/GIMP users might be able to suggest something? I'm still basically a CC3 mapper, and I can only help so far with GIMP because I only know the bits I've used in the last 2 months since I started using it

Help yourself to the parchment, LC. That's what it's there for

[LordCartoart]

Do you think casting a bigger white (or parchment-colored) halo will work?

Edit: I changed boldness the words with an overlay of 80%, which made it somewhat easier to see, but did not fix all of it.

[Mouse]

I don't know.

The way I would do it would mean actually erasing the line work, which isn't a very good idea - especially if you want to move or change the labels after you've erased a halo of space around the existing ones - there would be a lot of holes in your line work!

Maybe its something that can wait till you've completely done the whole map - by which time someone else might have come along with a totally brilliant solution.

[Mouse]

I think I may have a possible solution...

Copy your parchment layer, and move the copy up the stack until its right underneath your labels.

Then right click the labels layer and choose Alpha to Selection. (That should give you marching ants around all the labels)

Use the menu command Select/Grow, and grow the selection by about 5 pixels. Then use Select/Feather and give it about 5 pixels as well.

Use Select/Invert to invert the mask.

Make sure you have the new parchment layer selected, and hit DELETE on your keyboard. That should clear all the new parchment layer, except for a 5 pixel halo around each letter.

You might need to use only 2 pixels, or you might need to use 10. I don't know how big your original is. Whatever happens, this means the line work is preserved, but just covered up by the halo.

[LordCartoart]

Good thinking! It worked like a charm, just as you said: right after I finished. I'm done (I think) and here is the map.

WIP.jpg

Just to give you an idea of where this map came from, I got a screen shot from google earth:

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This is the land I flipped up-side down.

[Mouse]

Great Job, LC

I think in future maps the coastline might possibly be a bit thinner, but other than that a really great job