I think I may have a scale issue here. Because I've never seen any of these trees for real I can only go on what Google says is the height range for each one, which is altogether rather vague. So here are a few I'm not sure about next to each other. Please feel free to comment.

Are the Joshua trees too big? Are the gum trees too small? Are the saguaro too big or small?

Not sure if they would double for birch because the leaves are quite dark, but you could scale them differentially to make them slimmer.

Been working on everything I've done so far together today - to get things like relative contrast and shadows right. The Joshua trees are in the pipeline, but not yet finished.

I think I'm finally happy with the palm trees.

(work continues on all fronts, so don't think I've forgotten other types of tree)

Ok. How about this one? I managed to get it to look a bit taller by shortening the lateral branches a bit. It's all relative. I also managed to get the fronds to clump a bit more and show more of the branches, like the real one, by removing a lot of the distortion on all the stems. This might seem to make them a bit too straight, but at the size they will be in an overland map I think it will be ok.

Now back to the palms for one last try at making them look like something decent, and then the swamp trees and general jungle trees.

Hi Everyone! :D

I was a regular office worker - an administrator, come quality manager, come general dog's body... you know the sort of thing. But I have also always been an artist and a writer.

It was while I was looking for an app to use to map the twin planets of Ethran and Errispa where my novels are based that I discovered CC3 back in 2016.

Here is the very first map I ever did with the app, thanks to quite a lot of help from Ralf Schemmann - who also invited me to join this forum.

Over time I have become much more involved with the forum and discovered that I enjoyed helping other people learn to map with CC3 and its add ons.

I look forward to continuing all our existing conversations, and to many more new ones as well.

Sue (Mouse)