[agracier]

I'm glad you sorted it all out, I got the impression you were finding
my tutorial too confusing. When I look at it now it does seem over
long & complicated but I can't think of a way of shortening it & still
making it understandable to a complete novice, especially if they
don't know how to use Gimp.

It did sometimes feel like old times when opening a new textbook at school and wondering however in the world one was supposed to learn it all ... ha ha

But in this case I was motivated to learn it because i wanted to, not because of outside pressure ...

Anyway it is a very good tutorial. I'd been trying to figure out map making for quite some time, but never made any progress until your tutorial came along. Then it all sort of came together. It's not really complicated at all, but you do have to read everything carefully though. The devil is in the details as they say. For instance I kept floundering around on the size requirements of the maps until my wife pointed out a repeating mistake i kept making in my calculations ...

I am certain that over time as more members tackle map-making, they will find it is not all that difficult, but without a really good basic guide, they will get nowhere. There are going to be a spate of new maps coming out I predict, and kevins tutorial is to thank for it ... you have no idea how satisfying it was to see a first attempt at map making load up on screen ....thanks for the effort you invested in your tutorial.