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Old Posted Apr 20, 2008, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by deasine View Post
WOW! ALL THAT ON PAINT? LOL I swear I wouldn't be able to use paint for that stuff. Amazing.
Sure - all of the lines are just shapes - I make one shape for each - line, curve, interchange, etc, then keep a copy to the left, kind of like my own tool box. Then just rotate and use the fill to change colours. Zoom in to do fine edits, etc. I actually prefer it, as I find it easier to use than programs with layers. Just give yourself a lot of room on the left and top, it's easy to extend the drawing board right and down. Save as a bitmap (otherwise you get blending artifacts if you use a compression format). When done, I just crop it in Irfanview and save as a jpg.

The map took about three hours to build.
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