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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3507470" data-attributes="member: 7533">Here's a <a href="http://antediluvia.pbwiki.com/f/Tartessos.jpg" target="_blank">overview city map</a> for an Iron Heroes campaign I made recently......I was aiming for the same sort of "woodcut" or ink-print style.For the roads, I just started with a white background in Photoshop, then added in a second a second layer on which I drew the streets as black lines.  I "stroked" the street layer with one pixel worth of white on the outside, and the inverted the colors.  That left me with white streets outlined in black...  or black outlined white city locks that defined the streets.The font is called "Windlass", but isn't free.  The trees in the swamp and the cliff-face I borrowed from scans of old real-world maps of the appropriate era.The shore line of the river was stolen from Google Maps, and the water shading was done by "stroking" again with alternating 1 pixel wide white and black lines -- blend mode "dissolve", white always 100% opacity, black beginning at 100% opacity and reducing the opacity by 5% each time thereafter.It was first trying this sort of style, and I got a few ideas for improving my techique for next time.</blockquote>