I downloaded some time ago some ready made map outlines of the U.S. from the Internet and decided to use part of this in building my outline.

After some cleaning up I had my outline of the state of Texas. To make a tracing of the outline with my new brush. But before doing that I needed to increase my map size from 800x600 to something larger which would make my post editing easier and if it needed to be put out later to a print output, I resized my map to 3400x2550. I then colored my outline a nice green to pull it away from the background.

After some trial brush sizes I began to trace my map on a new layer. Didnt like that size so I scaled my brush down and traced again. I thought that was better. After finishing my trace, I went back to post edited my rope texture and slapped Texas on my map. Hope this is of some help to youI had fun experiementing.

P.S. You could probably use some drop shadow on your rope to give it a more 3D look.

Message edited on: 01/16/2006 19:56