{"id":254,"date":"2009-05-19T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2009-05-19T08:59:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:59:26","slug":"map-fun-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Map Fun &#038; Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I started playing with my map image in the computer.\u00a0 What would happen if&#8230;???\u00a0\u00a0 Well&#8230;first of all&#8230;I got it to black on white and not black on gray.\u00a0 Then&#8230;how about a nice, aged-cream background so it looks old?\u00a0 And wait, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have it kind of smudgy, like a map that&#8217;s been used a long time?\u00a0\u00a0 A little airbrushing with two different colors, using a tool that let me control density and opacity brought that out nicely.\u00a0 I thought of trying to add, say, a blood-stain, or a blotchy mark from spilled wine or ale, but that would take more skill than I have with the mouse as a drawing tool.\u00a0 It occurred to me (but I haven&#8217;t take the time yet for this, which will require going back to pen &amp; ink, as I would have to for the &#8220;liquid-stain&#8221; effect)\u00a0 that I could &#8220;distress&#8221; the edges of this strip map, too, as if it were torn or cut from a larger map for the convenience of someone who needed only that much.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now back to reality&#8230;I need to get the actual map down to the reproduction place.<\/p>\n<p>And I have a further question for you, if you&#8217;ll pardon a lazy writer.\u00a0 I keep misplacing my reference copy of the Paks book and I need the name of the count who sort-of-governs the area north of Brewersbridge.\u00a0\u00a0 Anybody?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_255\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255\" title=\"small-crop-antique\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/small-crop-antique.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of map \" width=\"129\" height=\"193\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of map <\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is just a tiny part of the map,\u00a0 shrunken to make it fit nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I started playing with my map image in the computer.\u00a0 What would happen if&#8230;???\u00a0\u00a0 Well&#8230;first of all&#8230;I got it to black on white and not black on gray.\u00a0 Then&#8230;how about a nice, aged-cream background so it looks old?\u00a0 And wait, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have it kind of smudgy, like a map [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[108,54,20],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-the-writing-life","tag-background","tag-map","tag-progress-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}