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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 194398" data-attributes="member: 93">All I really did was draw one (by hand) in a seperate layer, then copy it, crop it, and paste it into its own file.  Then, I cut-n-paste that image into subsequent maps.For the trees, I made several files, one with a single tree, and a couple with varying numbers of trees (groves, if you will) so I could paste a larger section into a picture (pasting hundreds of trees into a picture one-by-one gets REAL old REAL fast).For the mountains, I did more or less the same thing, except I drew several different mountains, and pasted them into the map.  There are 5 or 6 different mountain shapes, and using them sparingly keeps you from noticing that some of them are identical.EDIT: looking back at the first image in the thread, it looks like I might have drawn all of the mountains by hand...  I can't remember.  I think that they are based off several "basic" Mountain shapes, and then I added little flourishes to individualize them.I was trying to achieve a look similar to the maps in the front of the LoTR books, and other similar books, as well as similar to D&D maps...The most important thing for me is to be able to make them look good, but also to make doing the pictures fast and easy.  I'm not one to slave over an image for days.  If I'm not making fast progress, I set it aside and wait for inspiration to strike, because I know that when I get inspired, I can churn out an image in no time at all.</blockquote>

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