Light vignette, where the edges of an image or painting are made lighter than the center, is a less common technique than dark vignette but equally powerful. This effect creates a sense of openness, lightness, or surreality and has specific applications in photography and painting.

Although the mountains are not so "peaky" and are easier to fit together to make a Sierra/mountain range, I agree with Quenten.

If I could choose, I would leave these "peaky" hills - because more and more and infinite icons are always useful, but also smooth hills.

If I had to choose between the two, I prefer go with the smoother ones.

P.S.: The shape of the mountains is really beautiful. The first time I saw the image with all the icons together, they completely captured my attention.

I also comment that the viewing angle of the mountains and hills is very beautiful, I don't know if that is the correct term to express it.

This topic has already gone off topic. So change the topic name to Ricko's Tough Questions. 🤣

This way I save it in my bookmarks, and all my questions about using the program, and it's also easier to find.

I think buildings are still a bit lacking in the cities. Specific oriental, Greco-Roman, African and Meso-American buildings would be a great addition to the collection.

As for the floorplan, battlemap, dungeon:

Library, Church (more variety of statues and idols).

Loose items: Weapons and armor, robes, staffs, bows, etc.

More decorative elements for gardens and squares, flowers

Casino and gambling items

Ruins and rubble

Graves, tombstones, ruined temples, shrines

Image patches with different ground textures like Sue did in forest trail

Roots and vines

Rope bridge

Tents and huts

Ruined stairs

More floor symbols, whether sacred or cursed (circular, triangular, loose runes, etc.).

Craters

Sleeping bag

Luxury furniture

Hello brother welcome!

I suggest you start with Joe's videos, they cover the first steps in the program very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLaTKOJC6og&t=157s

Apart from that, profantasy has tutorial videos of the most varied styles available on the same page.

https://www.youtube.com/@ProfantasySoftware

If you have any other questions, just search to see if any topic has already been created on the subject or just ask.

Cheers

Maps have always fascinated me — long before RPGs crossed my path.

I remember well when the world was not yet made of screens. We lived surrounded by paper, pencils and imagination, and even without knowing exactly why, I was already attracted to those mysterious lines that indicated paths, places and possibilities.

There was, for example, a map of acupuncture points that my aunt kept very carefully. It fascinated me. It was this first contact that led me to study acupuncture for more than twenty years. It was as if each point on that drawn body was a crossroads between science and mystery. I also fondly remember geography classes. With silent maps we had to fill in roads, railways, capitals, rivers... That, far from being just a school task, was almost a sacred activity for me. I lost myself in that process with a joy that few would understand.

And then came RPGs. My first adventure was as a master — due to a lack of volunteers, it's true, but perhaps destiny was already giving me a push. I didn't follow the game's official script. I created my own story inspired by the short stories of the masters Roy Thomas and John Buscema and drew, as best I could, a small, crude map. It was 1987. And from there, it was all uphill.

Also, there was a time when maps were not only used to dream of distant worlds, but to emerge unharmed from a real world. In those days a well-placed line could be the difference between returning... or not.

Years later, around 2010 or 2011, the internet finally became accessible in the small town where I was living at the time. That's when I thought, half-laughing to myself: "It's already 2011... where are the flying cars?" If they hadn't arrived, at least, I imagined, maybe there was a computer program to make it easier to create maps — since those made by hand required time that I no longer had. It was in this search that I found Campaign Cartographer. I installed it, started fiddling around, and soon after my life turned upside down. I moved to Argentina, in an unexpected turn of events, and only really resumed this passion in 2021.

As expected, this time it's a MS-style volcano. I have an idea of ​​the center of the painting, but not yet the entire design. We'll see what the final image turns out to be in this freehand.