The things you insert are separate layers (from left to right above - Pictures, Text, Wordcloud, Canvas and Search Web Pictures). However, if you just want to arrange some photos and export the resulting collage, it works well. but it doesn't have NEAR the tools that GIMP and Inkscape have. After you've saved a project it looks a bit different, listing your previous projects at top left so you can open one if you want. There's a beginning screen, which says Create in the center at first. It's a pretty nice little program, but it has some problems and limitations. It has other features, so I'll cover some of them, too. Turns out that it's a nifty little program if you want to make a photo collage. I downloaded it and started talking to her. In January, ms_meme posted in the forum that she had been using a program called Fotowall, and was wanting a bit of help. Wish me luck! And as always, I’d love to hear your feedback, whether about the maps themselves or about the general idea of printing these out to use at the table (probably on card stock).Make A Collage Or Wordcloud With Fotowall My next task will be to try to print these out using the correct scale in PosteRazor. The horse and cart came from the big MapTool download. It’s a lot like the inn exterior with the streets and the roof.
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The stairs, beds and windows were from the MapTool download and the floors and walls were painted using various wood textures from that download.įinally, the exterior of the stable. I used images from the MapTool download for everything else (tables, bookshelves, chair, chest). I used some flooring from the Dungeon Tiles to paint the stone floor as well as the wooden platform floor. I used some Dungeon Tiles for the spiral staircase, the blue rune, the wooden stairs and the trap door. This was dead simple – one Dungeon Tile image.Īfter that, I created the hideout beneath the shop. Next, I created the main room of the shop from the second encounter. I used a texture to paint the cobblestone streets, a Dungeon Tile image for the inn itself, a stairs object from the big MapTool download and a roof object from that same download to represent the building next door. In some cases I tried to be as faithful as possible to the original, but there were some cases where I decided to make my own improvements.įirst, I created a map that serves as both the inn exterior for the first battle as well as for the last battle (the downstairs part of the inn). Combining that with the big MapTool image download that I have, I was able to recreate the maps pretty well (in my humble opinion).
#Posterazor tutorial for free
Now, I don’t have any Dungeon Tiles myself, but Wizards of the Coast has a program called Dungeon Tiles Mapper that you can download for free and which contains images for a bunch of different tiles (not all of them, but a good variety).
#Posterazor tutorial how to
The adventure describes how to build each encounter area using Dungeon Tiles. There’s a battle outside of a random inn on a random street, a battle inside a shop and the room beneath it, and a battle that can take place either in a room in an inn, next to a stable, or on the city streets depending on what has happened earlier in the adventure.
There are three combat encounters in the module I’ll be running (no real spoilers here). I haven’t tried the printing part yet, but I figured I’d start by building the maps in MapTool. DM Samuel has talked on his blog about doing this, building the maps in a program called GridMapper (which I probably would have loved a few weeks ago before I learned how to really use MapTool) and then printing them out to scale using a program called PosteRazor.
I’m pretty sure, though, that I can build my maps in MapTool and then print them out as “posters” to put on the table for my players to use. (Thanks for the tip, Ismael_DM!)Īs for maps, I’m pretty sure I’m going to stick with what I know: MapTool! While I’d love to set up a projector with my laptop to project a MapTool screen onto the tabletop (and there is a person at the local store who does exactly this), I’m not ready to lay out the cash required to build that sort of thing. More on that as I actually give it a shot. I’m pretty sure I’ll follow Ismael_DM’s suggestion in the comments of using the tutorial on Newbie DM’s blog to make flat tokens using metal washers. The things I haven’t been certain about are what to do about maps and what to do about tokens. I’ve gotten the adventure module (WATE1-1 Heirloom) and read through it once, which is a good start. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ll be a first-time DM for a Living Forgotten Realms (LFR) session at my local store on July 24, 2010.
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