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The images to the left show the original image scanned from issue #1 where Doctor Doom first arrives at his soon to be base. This was the best shot of his base, but it had that stupid yellow fog in front of it. I used the Clone Tool to carefully remove the cloud (this copys the surrounding colors and pastes them over the cloud). I then used the eraser to remove the entire sky and foreground. I then used the Lasso Mask Tool to copy and cut out the entire base. After I had a background ready, I could then paste the entire base onto it.
I wanted the background to be unique colors since each section and base was meant to repsresent a different piece of a planet. I choose the colors for the ground based on the green alien rocks. These rocks are the first hint that everyone is on an alien planet. Since I wanted Dooms base to be the biggest section, I choose these rocks for his corner of the world. After I got a few good rock images, I simplyed repeated them at several different sizes to create a mountain range.
The map was left in seperate pieces to shave a few hours off the time and to help in the printing process. By printing them seperate, I was able to cut them down after they were printed and tweak the size a little bit as I taped each page together. For example, the Healers village in the lower left came out too big and I ended cutting the entire bottom row of houses off. This gave Galactus more room on his mountain for his big bad self.
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