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<blockquote data-quote="SelcSilverhand" data-source="post: 5166178" data-attributes="member: 30016">If you have access to photoshop, I found that very easy to do my outdoor maps in. I would find a background that I liked that showed a perspective from high up. Then I would turn on the grid and adjust it to my liking. After that I would visit the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Archive.aspx?category=newsresources&amp;subcategory=minigalleries" target="_blank">WotC Miniatures gallery</a> where they have images of every single mini they released. Right click and save the image, use the masking wand to select all the backgrounds, invert the mask, then save the image as a transparent &quot;.GIF&quot;. I could then copy and paste it onto my map background. Because photoshop uses layers, each time I paste it becomes a new layer I can move around the map. This means that if I save my project I can come back later, select the right layer, and move that character around the map without having to start from scratch. Once you have the map you want, take a screen shot and crop out everything but the map, save it, and post it. Here is an <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4970414-post679.html" target="_blank">example </a>and <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4459447-post204.html" target="_blank">another one</a> from one of my games.It sounds like a lot of work, but after I puzzled it out I got to liking it.Edit: Ohh, and if I go waaay back, I can find this <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4079326-post13.html" target="_blank">gem</a> of a map... ; )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SelcSilverhand, post: 5166178, member: 30016"] If you have access to photoshop, I found that very easy to do my outdoor maps in. I would find a background that I liked that showed a perspective from high up. Then I would turn on the grid and adjust it to my liking. After that I would visit the [url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Archive.aspx?category=newsresources&subcategory=minigalleries]WotC Miniatures gallery[/url] where they have images of every single mini they released. Right click and save the image, use the masking wand to select all the backgrounds, invert the mask, then save the image as a transparent ".GIF". I could then copy and paste it onto my map background. Because photoshop uses layers, each time I paste it becomes a new layer I can move around the map. This means that if I save my project I can come back later, select the right layer, and move that character around the map without having to start from scratch. Once you have the map you want, take a screen shot and crop out everything but the map, save it, and post it. Here is an [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/4970414-post679.html]example [/url]and [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/4459447-post204.html]another one[/url] from one of my games. It sounds like a lot of work, but after I puzzled it out I got to liking it. Edit: Ohh, and if I go waaay back, I can find this [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/4079326-post13.html]gem[/url] of a map... ; ) [/QUOTE]

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