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The ocean edge was blurred too much. If it can't be blurred right then it's better to have it sharp like before. Instead of a gaussian blur, you could try a motion blur on the lowest settings. Or use a resizing algorithm to blow it up and then shrink it back down.
Nice job with the mountains. You have true artistic ability. Congratulations Thorpe, you are now our mountains expert. I'm sure you'll be getting requests for help with mountains in the future.
One problem I see is that the mountains are sharp, which is perfect, but the land texture is blurry so they don't blend together very well. Gimp has a lot of sharpen options. you might be able to get the land sharp enough to match the mountains and this would also mean that you could use your original edge between the see and land. There needs to be consistency throughout the map. All sharp or all soft. All sharp is better (as long as it's anti-aliased). And what you have right now is not even soft, it is blurry. This is what happens when you use blur filters to make things anti-aliased. The very best way to anti-alias something is to make the original 4 times bigger than it needs to be and the resize it.
I just noticed that none of your text in the sea is anti-aliased. What program are you using to create that text? Does that program not have an option for anti-aliased text? You can do your own anti-aliasing by making the ocean text 4 times bigger and then resize it. I am not talking about resizing it twice, once to make it bigger and once to get it back to the original size. I am talking about choosing a font size that is 4 times bigger so that the original starts out being 4 times bigger and then resize it to the appropriate size using gimp or paint.net.
This is actually how I made my lines on the oregon cities map. I made the whole outline 4 times bigger with no anti-aliasing at all and then when i resized it the lines were smooth and sharp and anti-aliased with no blurriness.
The compass is also not anti-aliased. It looks like the compass i gave the link to (http://www.clker.com/clipart-map-compass.html) but somehow is no longer anti-aliased. What program did you resize it in?
Both gimp and paint.net have options for choosing a resizing algorithm. If the result doesn't look anti-aliased with one algorithm then try another.
I think the impassables legend would look better as a square and not a circle. then you wouldn't have to worry about it being pixelated. But it still does need a black border.
The border around the whole map is not anti-aliased and frankly it is awful and needs to be replaced. It match the first version better but not this version.
Nice job with the mountains. You have true artistic ability. Congratulations Thorpe, you are now our mountains expert. I'm sure you'll be getting requests for help with mountains in the future.
One problem I see is that the mountains are sharp, which is perfect, but the land texture is blurry so they don't blend together very well. Gimp has a lot of sharpen options. you might be able to get the land sharp enough to match the mountains and this would also mean that you could use your original edge between the see and land. There needs to be consistency throughout the map. All sharp or all soft. All sharp is better (as long as it's anti-aliased). And what you have right now is not even soft, it is blurry. This is what happens when you use blur filters to make things anti-aliased. The very best way to anti-alias something is to make the original 4 times bigger than it needs to be and the resize it.
I just noticed that none of your text in the sea is anti-aliased. What program are you using to create that text? Does that program not have an option for anti-aliased text? You can do your own anti-aliasing by making the ocean text 4 times bigger and then resize it. I am not talking about resizing it twice, once to make it bigger and once to get it back to the original size. I am talking about choosing a font size that is 4 times bigger so that the original starts out being 4 times bigger and then resize it to the appropriate size using gimp or paint.net.
This is actually how I made my lines on the oregon cities map. I made the whole outline 4 times bigger with no anti-aliasing at all and then when i resized it the lines were smooth and sharp and anti-aliased with no blurriness.
The compass is also not anti-aliased. It looks like the compass i gave the link to (http://www.clker.com/clipart-map-compass.html) but somehow is no longer anti-aliased. What program did you resize it in?
Both gimp and paint.net have options for choosing a resizing algorithm. If the result doesn't look anti-aliased with one algorithm then try another.
I think the impassables legend would look better as a square and not a circle. then you wouldn't have to worry about it being pixelated. But it still does need a black border.
The border around the whole map is not anti-aliased and frankly it is awful and needs to be replaced. It match the first version better but not this version.
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