First digital map Redux

I hope this post shows up. I posted earlier this morning and my post isn’t there… oh well.

I just wanted to share the first digital map I made around 2010. I made it using Campaign Cartographer 2. I’m not looking for feedback on that map. I had no clue what I was doing. I just wanted to show the old version vs. the new version.

The second map here is a recent “rework” of the old map. It isn’t exactly the same, but pretty close. I used Photoshop. Critiques are fine for this map, but, other than this forum, my new map is for me while I work on a novel, so I’m not trying to make it a masterpiece work of art.

On the new map, I am trying a new mountain technique. I want top-down mountains similar to satellite imagery of our real world. The technique used on this map is a bunch of squiggly lines with a textured emboss. It is the closest I’ve come to achieving the effect I’m going for. If anyone has any tips, please share.

Thanks!

Old map (my first digital map):

New version:

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