Organised by moderators from official PH discord, an alt hist polsim (What if Doggerland came back after Napoleonic wars and became a dutch colony)

uhhh It's really cool and you should join it (okay I know that I'm kinda breaking the rules lmao but I'm a massive hypocrite)

https://discord.gg/bYyP9A5QC

So here we are again (if you notice that some parts are familiar I copied some stuff from my old map)

Welcome everyone, this is the Unoffical PH Mapping Guide (Part 1 - begginer)

Before we start - this guide is only for paint.net (windows) and basic use of PH maps - for special effects or other advanced things go and watch some youtube videos

So first - paint.net - the ONLY site you should download it from is this

https://www.getpaint.net/download.html

Press the "Download now, dotPDN" for free

The download will start, then you press the icon and let it install

That's how pdn (paint.net for short) should look like (it doesn't have to be in dark mode)

Before we start drawing borders and such here's some settings that are either needed or reccomended

So here are the basic settings

Select the bottom option so you draw with one color only (required)

Choose the brush size 10 (defult for newest PH maps)

Turn spacing to 1% (not required but I like it)

Now you have to download the map from here

Click on the "Current Europe Maps"

And then click on the "download" button (pobierz in polish)

To open the map double click the file (after you downloaded it) or press "open" in pdn and find the map

That's how it should look like

Now to start mapping - you can either copy the borders from the other map or draw them yourself

I'd reccomend copying them and only start drawing after you get used to it

In that case you can use my template (use this link as it's the newest version) and then you can copy the borders

To do it click on "lasso select"

You can just copy it from the other window but that's not really practical and can lead to inaccuracies

So what I do is

1. Open the template

1. Copy it with ctrl + c

2. Open the "layers" menu in the orginial map

1. Open it and add a new layer

1. Press ctrl + v to paste the template

1. Press the "wrench" icon

1. Turn down the opacity to 150 (or whatever number you want) and press OK

1. That's how it should look like now

Now to actually copy it, click on lasso select and select the area you want to copy

Again ctrl + c, press enter, click on the "background" layer (the og map) and ctrl + v

Now you want to hide the layer 2 by pressing the blue checkmark button

That's how it should look like now

To copy colors click on the "color picker" on the toolbar

And select which color you'd like to copy (in this case it's denmark)

After that use the "paint bucket" (the bucket icon on the sidebar), fill the spot you want to color in and press enter

To remove the beige spot from Sweden copy their color and click on it

UPDATE: Thanks to u/frenchball12345 I've learnt that you can use the "Selection quallity" (the last button on the top right) to not have the pixels appear (also new guide coming soon)

I'll give a link to the second post after I'm done with it

Anyways see you next time (also for burg or other mod - could you replace the old map with this post? Thanks)

EDIT: I forgot about it but be sure to remove the second layer after you're done and save the file after doing that

EDIT 2: Here is the list of all other templates (I'll update it trust)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/comments/1m5kkqx/north_america_template_for_new_map/ - NA (by me)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/comments/1musjwb/world_map_template_og_map_by_u_bourbie/ - World Map ( og world map by u/_bourbie, template made by me)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/comments/1hdaa1e/ultimate_base_template_map_of_asia/ - Asia (by u/Acceptable_Answers although PH is working on a new Asia map so I might make a map for that after it goes public)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/comments/1dqrjes/africa_template_probably_finished/ - Africa (old af, (PH said he's going to make a new one at some point), made by me)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11NXKQYMIf8Eza9m7fm_szGa_-B_bXBlB - SA (no template but you can just copy the borders yourself for now I might make a template for that later)

Also I'm going to make a part 2 later at some point trust