Oct / Nov '17 Lite Challenge: Waskingdale Island

[industrygothica]

That parchment just put your map on another level. Just adds a sense of elegance to it that I didn't see coming. Nice job!

[Straf]

Nice, but a little smaller on the title?

You've got the right amount of space around the island, but the title is cramping it a bit by touching it when it doesn't need to

Arrrrrgh! I didn't see that when I was doing it and now I have to go back and undo it! I'd shut out everything else when I was putting that title box in even though I'd told myself to 'mind the island' before I'd started. I rushed it.

That parchment just put your map on another level. Just adds a sense of elegance to it that I didn't see coming. Nice job!

Thanks. I wasn't sure it was going to work - for some reason I don't really get to see what I'm doing in the package, only when I export it and view it in something else. I think it's all the junk like toolbars and things.

[Mouse]

No matter If its on a layer of its own just scale the layer down a little and adjust the position with the move tool

[ThomasR]

Pretty good looking map !

[Straf]

Thanks Thomas

It wasn't on a layer of its own. Not really. Anyway I've moved it and added a scale and a compass.

### Latest WIP ###
Waskingdale Island.jpg

[Mouse]

Looking better and better, Straf

Now you've gone and done it, though - added place spots.

I want to know what they are called!

[Straf]

I've been struggling with labelling in GIMP. I could use Inkscape or I can take the place markers off the map

[Mouse]

At this late stage you could just leave them as-is

What kind of problems are you having?

I just click the text tool and type the name in a chosen font, colour and size.

[Straf]

It just looks yucky at smaller sizes.

[Mouse]

Is that resolution or font?

I mean, is it pixelated, or the wrong font?

I've never had a problem that way, so I'm not sure what you mean.

If you are having resolution problems you can always type them bigger than you want them to be, and scale them down, which will get rid of the pixilation

If its making them stand out from the map, duplicate the text and turn the lower copy the opposite colour to the top one, then blur it, or do a drop shadow on it with x and y displacement set to zero, and the blur set to about 10, then duplicate the resulting shadow layer several times until it shows up like a glow.

(I've had problems using actually using a genuine glow!)