Ouch, that looked worse than I would have expected.

Try using TRACED on it instead (Just type the command on the command line).

A positive offset makes it larger than the original. You can experiment a bit with the smoothing distance, but since the outline of this effect probably should be more smooth than the actual coastline, a value of 1-10 may be appropriate, depending on your map scale.

Your maps are nice, but I notice several of your fills look horribly pixelated. This is either due to their scaling being really wrong for this map, or the resolution settings being wrong. You can check the resolution settings by going to :CC2RESMODE: and set them to manual - very high and see if that changes anything. If it doesn't, you'll need to edit the scaling for the fills, which you can find by clicking the fill style indicator in the top right, go to the bitmap files tab, select the correct fill, and severly reduce the values under 'scaled'.

Also, I would recommend replacing that old "striped" stone texture. That is an ancient legacy fill from the CC2 days, you should have better stone variants available.

Also, those castle walls will look nice with a small bevel applied to them, it helps enhance the 3-dimensional feeling of the wall.

I assume you refer to the image gallery here on the forums?

If so, the answer is no unfortunately. The image gallery plugin that is in use here doesn't support sub-albums or non-image files (you already have the ability to create multiple albums). And there aren't any real alternatives to this plugin either.

Lack of tag is just an oversight. I've added a 'Character' tag now. You can edit your post to add it if you wish.

As for music instruments, I don't think there is any available except for the harp. Maybe one of the free community symbol sets have symbols seen from the correct angle that it might be used. I don't think there are any Character Artist compatible symbols, but a top-down dungeon-scale symbol might work. Likewise, you may find an image on the internet which is usable.

When you add new fill styles, drawing tools won't be created automatically for them. This is partly because drawing tools are specialized tools for different purposes, not a one tool per fill type of deal, as you can see some tools are smooth polys, others are fractal polys, they have different kind of outlines based on their purpose, they are set to go on the appropriate sheet and so on.

When you import fill styles you can manually create your own drawing tools that include these, but more commonly they are accessed by clicking on the Fill Style indicator in the top right of the main CC3+ window, and go to the bitmap files tab. Here you can see all the fills in the map (with preview), and whatever you pick will be the current fill which will be used when you draw things with the basic tools found in the right hand toolbar. Of course, when you use the basic tools, you also have to remember to set the sheet and other properties manually too.