I appreciate the comments. I've got a lot of projects on my desk right now, but my game load has dropped so really I'm just in a process of trying new things and seeing what techniques work.

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What are you using? Your maps look gorgeous.
Photoshop, that's all. Actually, a lot of what I do can be narrowed down to a few really basic techniques. They're not great, but they do the job. And thanks.

Here's something I decided to take a swing at because I might be taking a new run at Curse of the Crimson Throne:

Fishery map, 1st Floor.
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Still a huge WIP, but as you can see, there is a lot of wood going on here, from the boat to the building to the walkways, etc. I'm kind having to pull out everything I have so I can sell all of that wood. The problem is it becomes very difficult to see. This is supposed to be a filthy, grimy, run-down dock warehouse making fish sludge, with a broken-down old boat out back. I'll be dirtying up the place as I go along.

You have no idea how hard it is to find useful pictures of piles of dead fish and guts. Seriously, it's hard.