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MisterE

Trad climber

Canoga Porn, CA

Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 24, 2009 - 07:18pm PT

In the New Sedona guide.

I am 5 topos and ~4 working hours from finishing the photoshop work on all of them.

I recieved these topos as copies, pencil scrawls, works of art, and everything in between from 10 different sources, traced them for consistency on a light table, scanned them, and cleaned them up with photoshop.

Here's just one example of the process, this one took 6 hours.

Before:

After:

Additional statistics:

700 routes in 35 different areas, several of these have up to 5 sub-areas.

UNHOLY!!!

Seriously getting close now folks.

Thanks to Justthemaid for being a psyched editor, cuz I am totally burnt out on the sheets.

Must...keep...going...so...close...

nature

climber

Tucson, AZ

Aug 24, 2009 - 07:22pm PT

keep up the good work, E... It's worth it. We missed you out at Winslow.

I mentioned to Dave but I also want to mention it to you. I think some of the dogs that joined us on so many of our trips, in particular Winslow, deserve a mention. Cora, Yoda, Summit, Aussie, Patsy Cline... you get the picture.

drljefe

climber

Old Pueblo, AZ

Aug 24, 2009 - 07:23pm PT

Now you and Skip get your valley asses back here to do some crimbimg, ok?
Keep it up- those topos better work!!!

klk

Trad climber

cali

Aug 24, 2009 - 07:26pm PT

i have no idea if they're functional, but i really like yr. maps and block printing.

that slightly askew block printing looks vaguely tami-ish.

Studly

Trad climber

Aug 24, 2009 - 07:37pm PT

Right on, very nice topos in the grand old handdrawn tradition.

nature

climber

Tucson, AZ

Aug 24, 2009 - 07:38pm PT

I'm 100% certain these topo's will be very functional.

Nate D

climber

San Francisco

Aug 24, 2009 - 07:48pm PT

cool. Love hand drawn topos. Don't know squat about the guide or these areas, but I do have a lot of experience with maps, and IMHO North should ideally always be pointed north. Seems to help for some reason. :)

Clint Cummins

Trad climber

SF Bay area, CA

Aug 24, 2009 - 08:01pm PT

Looks good! Although I think the Before photo is not the rough sketch - it looks like a retraced version.

Topo cleanup is usually a huge project in time and effort!

And I think Nate meant to say North should be pointed *up*, which I agree with.
(Maybe a suggestion for a future edition, after you finish this one and get a lot of time off for remotivation).

Redwreck

Social climber

Echo Parque, Los Angeles, CA

Aug 24, 2009 - 08:13pm PT

Wow, looking good there. Excellent work!

klk

Trad climber

cali

Aug 24, 2009 - 08:17pm PT

IMHO North should ideally always be pointed north. Seems to help for some reason. :)

yeah, for the big overview maps. but if you did that with this example, the trail would be pointing down.

wouldn't bother me, but the gym climbers will be screwed. they'll be off to deliverance territory, with 48 HRS and lawsuits to follow.

steelmnkey

climber

Vision man...ya gotta have vision...

Aug 24, 2009 - 09:01pm PT

Very nice E! Like that style.
Can't wait to see it!!

MisterE

Trad climber

Canoga Porn, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2009 - 09:35pm PT

Thought I might throw out some of the keeper area cover pages again:

Crap! I gotta finish this!

Lates!

goatboy smellz

climber

लघिमा, co

Aug 24, 2009 - 09:41pm PT

Looking good, do I need to send JTM one of these to help you make the deadline?

SteveW

Trad climber

The state of confusion

Aug 24, 2009 - 10:08pm PT

Shoot, E, I wuz hopin' it'd be INTO THE WIDE. . .

hee hee hee. . .

MisterE

Trad climber

Canoga Porn, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2009 - 10:12pm PT

The deadline is the start of Sedona climbing season - November.

Edit: that's the deadline because that's the soonest it's going to come out! 8}

mark miller

Social climber

Reno

Aug 24, 2009 - 10:16pm PT

Nice work E. Is The"barn" gonna "Burn" on the eastside on Holloween?

TGT

Social climber

So Cal

Aug 24, 2009 - 10:36pm PT

but the gym climbers will be screwed. they'll be off to deliverance territory,

And that's a bad thing?

North should be up, consistently. If the detail maps are oriented differently from the overview maps, that can get really confusing. Seen it done in other guide books and it lead to some "WTF?" moments.