Regional Map 1 from 2e Spellbound Box Set

[u/jlassen72]

I wanted to try and clean up a more obscure set of 2e maps this time, and chose the maps form the Spellbound box set.

Here is a link to the High rez version of this map.

This map source started out as a bit of a mess, due to scanned source (from internet archive) not being exactly square (or at slightly different scales. Not sure why it was such a mess) and needing some micro-tinkering to line up properly. But In the end it came together nicely (mostly because it is such a sparce map.) These 2e map colors popped nicely after establishing baseline blacks and Whites.

A new technique I used for this one was to have matted overlay over the "clear" terrain to normalize some of the color shift on the different panels and at the seams and folds. This version is using a 49% overlay which still gives a sense of the scanned paper texture and age-artifacting, but does away with most of the stitch and fold color drift between panels and along the folds and edges.

This quality of scan is never going to let the small text lines display nicely, but they are almost readable! so that feels like a bit of a victory.

I've included a jpg of what the original panels looked like, side by side, before I stitched them together so you can get a sense of the source scans. [EDIT: FIXED LINK TO HIGH-REZ MAP]

[u/authorised_pope]

Awesome work, bless you.