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==Tutorial is currently quite helpful, but==

only for finding the programs and data and recoloring the content. That's most of it, absolutely, but you forgot to walk through how to crop the image to the relevant section of the world data. Zoom is easy enough to find, but QGIS is still user-unfriendly enough that crop is nowhere obvious to be found in the toolbars or menus. The so-called "help" command is completely inoperative on the toolbars and menus and merely informs a user the map is "Map Canvas" which is something like the opposite of help. — [[User talk:LlywelynII|<span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.1em 0.1em 0.1em; class=texhtml">LlywelynII</span>]] 04:14, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

== Needs advanced lessons ==

Sorry, I'm finding I'm not getting any joy from these tutorials, apart from knowing what software to use there just isn't enough detail to guide me on producing maps like [[:File:Washington_topographic_map-fr.svg]], for those of us who want to. Am also finding some of the steps just don't work at all, with QGis 1.7.3, and information on GIMP but not Photoshop. The SVGSimple plugin described in lesson 2 isn't available, and the Shaded Relief plugin just gives Python errors. I tried exporting ting a raster but it is pixelated nothing on the level of detail as that map I linked. I have tried converting a TIFF to SVG in Adobe Illustrator, but still no joy. Maybe I'm wanting to delve into advanced steps too fast, but for the sake of making a map from time to time, don't want to spent weeks playing about and learning to use it. Just wanting to get from A to B in easy steps, with enough instructions for Photoshop/Illustrator users, rather than free GIMP/Inkscape software. Not sure if anyone has the time to produce such a tutorial, but I think it might help, as some people like to do things like this themselves rather than ask around. I fully realise this is complex and involved software, needing a number of programs and lots of time to produce detailed map like that. Cheers, '''[[User:MarcusBritish|<font color="#001C56">Ma<font color="#B40000">&reg;&copy;</font>usBr<font color="#B40000">iti</font>sh</font>''']]&nbsp;^{&#91;[[User talk:MarcusBritish|chat]]]}''' 20:50, 7 January 2012 (UTC)