Thank you :)

I drew an interlocking zig zag pattern with 2 straight lines like a herringbone pattern, and then converted the lines from straight to smooth. I used the bronze inlay fill from Marine Dungeon to make it look metallic, like those fancy borders you sometimes get on Christmas Cards.

While a glance suggests they are ok, they are a little dated.

You might be interested in this series of videos by Remy Monsen.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLulP-cGMLxw4qTpXfilRHgbDUg8WvrEX2

That's a pretty good first map :)

The next stage is to start playing with the sheet effects like the shadows to see what different results you can get. For example, those smaller shadows are a lot sharper than the taller ones on the trees. Maybe they could do with a little more blur on them?

No problem, Ricko :)

Though the result is much better this time I can still see a very faint glitch across the middle of that map, so you might want to either reduce the size of the glow or shadow, or export at a slightly smaller size, because I'm not sure it is wise to go much higher than 40 million. (Maybe @Monsen would know?)

The relatively low default setting is so that people with less powerful computers can export without issue.

That might be the maximum pixels per pass setting, which can miscalculate very large glows or edge fades if the pass is too small to capture all the information and cause these rather strange horizontal stripes.

Type EXPORTSETMPPP and hit enter, then check the number in the command line. The default value is 4 million. Type 40 million without commas or gaps and hit enter, then try the export again.