Thank you LoopySue, that was very helpful

Thank you Kevbeck, steal away. I look at a lot of maps others have drawn and I am certain I create very similar content at times either intentionally or not.

That is likely the issue. My setting sa re below and you are correct about the differences. My anti aliasing is much higher, my size/resolution is smaller and I noticed you don't have the progressive jpeg option active. Using your settings my computer is rendering the jpeg very slowly now but the output is much better.

My rendering is only 2.98GB, the Fantasy Grounds VTT can accept a file that size without choking on it

Thank you. That was very helpful. I will check the Tome of Ultimate Mapping more closely for more on this.

I am likely picking nits. I agree that when I zoom in to that magnification the image is exactly what I am trying for. This is why I really like this style combination. The contrast of the light and dark blends extremely well. But zoom out to the full map (my picture above) and the transition between light and dak areas is much more stark and the light grass looks pixilated(?) There are small dark pixels that pop in the light grass when I do the Save to Rectangular JPEG that isn't there "on the screen" I am trying to figure out if this is a jpeg resolution issue, something I can mediate with transparency, blend, blur or texturize. Or if it's just my old eyes... it may just be the software I am using. This is what it looks like when I try to grab the same area of the map you have.

I still need to work on exporting maps as jpeg but this one looks ok in the VTT environment. Using Blend and Edge Fade Inner with reduced transparency for the ligher grass areas on a seprate sheer. They pop a lot more in the jpeg than on the screen. Almost looks like an aerial view of a golf course, not what I was trying for🙄. Will experiement with transparency further.

Any guidance is appreciated