You can make separate symbol catalogues from the same folder if you haven't split them into subfolders.

Check out page 90 in the Tome for the basics.

If you get stuck, just shout.

You can do it using GIMP.

When you get to the point in the video half way through, you don't need to go any further saving it as a pattern in GIMP. Just export yourself a png file to your User folder.

It works better on some images than others. Try not to pick images that are vastly different on either side or top and bottom.

If you can draw your own pattern you could use Krita (another free bitmap editor), which has a wrap feature to give you an endlessly repeating canvas to draw on. This video talks about saving a pattern within Krita, but he does say about 90 seconds in that you can just export it to png the moment you're happy with the drawing. (this video does go a long way off track the further through you go)

Here is a general view of some English fields for comparison.

It's looking good so far.

The glows don't have to be really loud to work. As long as they make the text clear enough to read that is fine. With the labels 2 different colours this can be a bit tricky, but I assume that the brown labels are not as important as the black ones, so they don't have to be as eyecatching.

So, how about this?

I switched off the effects on the Text Outlined Light sheet because the text itself is so large and so pale it doesn't really need a glow.

You might want to make them a little more opaque, but that's part of personal taste.

A little tip: Using a ranking system of different sizes is ok, but try not to use too many different sizes if you can avoid it.

Thanks :)

I did a quick sampler of all the forest and woodland drawing tools with the tool names shown for identification.

The trees from Darklands are quite dark compared to other styles, so you won't get any lighter trees than the jungle ones.

I think you might have the blurred FOREST SHADOWS sheet above the FOREST* sheets (above in the map - below in the list). That would cause the blurring seen in your shot. Check to make sure the sheets are in the right order.

As for the drawing tools themselves, the forest ones all seem to be in order, but the last two woodlands drawing tools seem to have a higher than expected density. I don't know if this is intended or not.