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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 3347487" data-attributes="member: 31301">If you're interested in making your map really ssssllllooowwwwllllyyyy like I did, you can:(A) Draw out the different pieces of the map in pencil.(B) Sketch your final image with pen.(C) Erase all of the rest of the pencil, but don't worry to much about getting all of it. Just make sure it's significantly lighter than the ink.(D) Scan the pen drawings in and use photo editing software (I use Microsoft Photo Editor, which came bundled with my ancient copy of office) to crop out everything but the part's relevant to your map.(E) Save the cropped scans as bitmap files.(F) Import the bitmaps into Inkscape and use the Trace>Bitmap command to edge your ink drawings.(G) Delete the traced bitmaps.This leaves you with a nice vector object that you can fiddle around with.If you want an object to have color in it, you have two options:(1) you can export the object as a bitmap and use Microsoft Paint to fill in all the white spaces (or whatever your background color is) with whatever color you want and then reimport that colored bitmap to your drawing or(2) You can create colored objects that precisely match the borders of your vector object and put the colored objects behind the tracings.In my map, the coastline and ocean swells are done with the first method and the rest of the parts of the map are with the 2nd.Once you've got your map assembled from the tracings and background bitmap you can re-export the whole shebang as another bitmap.</blockquote>

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