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<blockquote data-quote="jaerdaph" data-source="post: 5060550" data-attributes="member: 3398">I've Got The Blues... (or, Be True to Your School)Lately, I've been obsessed with matching the classic &quot;Old School&quot; blue used in the original TSR AD&amp;D module maps as closely as possible. The blue I'm using now is, well, garish and a little rough on the eyes - I blame my choice of tacky neon colors on the Caribbean half of my gene pool. I've been asking around (unsuccessfully) for Pantone colors and hex numbers, did some experimenting with scans and the &quot;eyedropper&quot; tool, and came up with an RGB color in CC3 by customizing the palette that I think best matches the original TSR maps. Here are poster maps of Level 2 and Level 7 of the Castle of the Mad Archmage. I've (slowly) been cleaning up the maps made prior to Level 7 to improve the look and fix any errata or mistakes that may have crept in. These will eventually make it into the CotMA PDF (not necessarily in this color - but the improved maps w/ errata fixes certainly will). I've also started experimenting with the new anti-aliasing tools in CC3 (from the latest patch 8) as well. Any thoughts are appreciated. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses&nbsp; &nbsp; B-)" data-shortname="B-)" />Edit: I am not sure why these files are being posted at smaller dimensions than the previous poster maps as well as with larger file sizes - the files on my computer are closer to 250 KB on my computer before I load them to EN World (and the dimensions are larger too). Either EN World is altering them, or CC3 is doing something wonky when I generate the PNGs using the new anti-aliasing tools. I ran these through Fireworks first though before posting... Anyhow, I need to look into it more. Edit: Images removed 4/23/2010 because they are out of date. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="jaerdaph, post: 5060550, member: 3398"] [b]I've Got The Blues... (or, Be True to Your School)[/b] Lately, I've been obsessed with matching the classic "Old School" blue used in the original TSR AD&D module maps as closely as possible. The blue I'm using now is, well, garish and a little rough on the eyes - I blame my choice of tacky neon colors on the Caribbean half of my gene pool. I've been asking around (unsuccessfully) for Pantone colors and hex numbers, did some experimenting with scans and the "eyedropper" tool, and came up with an RGB color in CC3 by customizing the palette that I think best matches the original TSR maps. Here are poster maps of Level 2 and Level 7 of the Castle of the Mad Archmage. I've (slowly) been cleaning up the maps made prior to Level 7 to improve the look and fix any errata or mistakes that may have crept in. These will eventually make it into the CotMA PDF (not necessarily in this color - but the improved maps w/ errata fixes certainly will). I've also started experimenting with the new anti-aliasing tools in CC3 (from the latest patch 8) as well. Any thoughts are appreciated. B-) [I]Edit: I am not sure why these files are being posted at smaller dimensions than the previous poster maps as well as with larger file sizes - the files on my computer are closer to 250 KB on my computer before I load them to EN World (and the dimensions are larger too). Either EN World is altering them, or CC3 is doing something wonky when I generate the PNGs using the new anti-aliasing tools. I ran these through Fireworks first though before posting... Anyhow, I need to look into it more. [/I] [B][COLOR="Red"]Edit: Images removed 4/23/2010 because they are out of date. [/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]

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