Weddingbee DIY Projects: Forum: Maps

Weddingbee DIY Projects: Forum: Maps - Recent Topics http://diy.weddingbee.com/ Weddingbee DIY Projects: Forum: Maps - Recent Topics en Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:20:34 +0000 superstarkld on "Church to Reception map for guests" http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/church-to-reception-map-for-guests#post-2418 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:39:49 +0000 superstarkld 2418@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ <img src="http://bios.weddingbee.com/pics/60569/Wedding_Map.png" />What do you guys think? I spent most of the morning working on this, and I think it turned out pretty well. I also designed our "logo" from scratch today so i'll post that too!  <img src="http://bios.weddingbee.com/pics/60569/Logo.png" /> shoppingsenior on "Make Maps Easy website!" http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/make-maps-easy-website#post-729 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:15:02 +0000 shoppingsenior 729@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ I found this website on Project Wedding and was just amazed as how easy it was.  It does everything for you.  You may have to sign up for an account to view map but it is free. <a href="http://www.weddingmapper.com/"><a href="http://www.weddingmapper.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.weddingmapper.com/</a>   </a> balletflat on "Mrs. Ballet Flat's Making Your Own Map!" http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/mrs-ballet-flats-making-your-own-map-1#post-156 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:48:02 +0000 balletflat 156@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ As you might already know, I make maps for a living. So, of course, I had to make our wedding directions map for <a href="http://www.weddingbee.com/2009/03/24/and-theyre-off-6/">our invitations</a>! While this map wouldn’t serve as impressive to my colleagues in GIS (Geographic Information Systems), I think this was a pretty good map for our guests, considering I couldn’t use my work’s GIS software! My Photoshop skills are limited to none, so I used Microsoft PowerPoint to make the maps. I will admit, while it is time consuming, the steps are rather easy. It took me about 3 hours to perfect this map to my liking, but if you aren’t as picky as I am, it shouldn’t take that long! Also, it’s pretty hard to tell you how to make these maps by typing it out, so if there is any confusion, please comment and I’ll try my best to help! By the way, my apologies in advance for the fuzzy picture examples. I don’t have Photoshop to make them perfectly clear, so please accept my meager Paint/PowerPoint skills here in showing you how to make this wedding map. Here’s the finished product first: <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/1.jpg" alt="map" /> First, you want to open PowerPoint with a blank slide to work with. For making the map, you will be using the drawing tools, which is by default, in the bottom part of the screen. Next, using <a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a> or whatever internet map website you prefer, get a view of the area where the ceremony and reception will be. I did this on Google maps using the “Get Directions” feature. I plugged in my ceremony address to my reception address, and *poof*, there was a well zoomed-in area of the map. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/2.jpg" alt="step22" /> Now, just press “Print Screen” on your keyboard to copy the image from Google and “Paste” it into your PowerPoint slide. You may have to resize it (drag the corners in) for it to fit in the slide. Using the curve tool, start tracing the lines of major roads/interstates. To get there, click “Autoshapes”, go to “Lines”, and the curve tool is the squiggly line. The thing with this is you click along the line you are tracing, and rather than it showing a jagged line, it curves. It’s less confusing than it sounds… just remember that the more you click along the line of the map you pasted in, the more accurate the curve along the roadway will be. Don’t worry if it isn’t exact, however, because your guests won’t hold your map up to a Google map image! This map is to give them an idea of the lay of the land, you could say! <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/3.jpg" alt="step41" /> You can play with the thickness (weight)/color/style of the line to differentiate between interstates, rivers, small roads, etc. To do that, right click on a line you just drew and go to “Format Object”. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/4.jpg" alt="step5" /> So, all you have to do is repeat this step to draw all of your lines for your roadways, rivers, or whatever else is key to get to your wedding location(s). Once you are done tracing your lines, add labels to identify your roadways with the “Text Box” tool, which is on the bottom of your screen near the Autoshape box. You can rotate your text to match the street angles, like I did. I made the interstate labels with a white-filled circle in the background (a graphic also in the AutoShape feature) with a text box in front of it. I also grouped the text and circle graphic together to make it easier to resize and copy/paste, if you need multiple labels of the same type. After you’ve finished labeling, go ahead and delete the Google image in the background. Here is the line work that I was left with. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/5.jpg" alt="step62" /> To make the callout bubbles that I made for a close-up of the roads near the ceremony and reception location, I made a zoom-in of the vicinity on Google map and made a Print Screen copy/paste into PowerPoint again. This time, I resized it to be tinier (the size of a the callout bubble). The shapes I used are called “Callouts” in the “Autoshape” feature on PowerPoint. You can resize these to the shape you need, just as any AutoShape on the tool. So, add one of those on your map and trace your roadways the same way you did for the bigger map. After you are done, group all of your lines together with the callout so that you can format it easier to make it eventually appear in front of the original roadways you drew. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/6.jpg" alt="step7" /> To rid of the background roadwork and rivers, all I had to do was fill in the Callout with white. You may have to also right click on the callout, go to “Order”, and bring it to the front if the white fill doesn’t completely work. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/7.jpg" alt="step71" /> YAY! Repeat the same thing for the other location so you can have two callouts: one for the ceremony, and one for the reception. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/8.jpg" alt="step81" /> For the reception and ceremony graphics to mark the locations, I simply Googled “Free Chapel Clipart” and “Free Wedding Bells Clipart” and found the cute graphics that I used in the wedding map. After that, just add your graphics in the map (using the Insert tool at the top of PowerPoint, then Picture, then “From File”), and VOILA! There is your wedding map! <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/06/9.jpg" alt="map1" /> To export it into a printer-friendly image, you can do one of two things. One way is to copy/paste this into Photoshop and to export it as a high-resolution jpeg. (I don’t have Photoshop, so a friend did this for me. Thanks again!) Another way to do this (thanks to Mrs. Corn for the idea) is to download <a href="http://www.cutepdf.com/">CutePDF</a> (a free program) and to print the map to PDF. If you try to “Save As” in PowerPoint as a JPEG, the resolution it saves your image at will look pixelated, so you have to do one of these two things.   To read the original post, click <a href="http://www.weddingbee.com/2009/04/06/making-your-own-map/">HERE</a>. springroll on "Mrs. Spring Roll's DIY Wedding Map" http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/mrs-spring-rolls-diy-wedding-map#post-307 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:28:17 +0000 springroll 307@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ I never imagined I would be saying this, but I am in love with maps. If you are not, than you probably haven’t seen <a href="http://www.lhcalligraphy.com/maps.html">Laura Hooper’s maps</a>. If Mr. Spring Roll and I had an unlimited budget, we would commission a custom wedding map. Unfortunately, our budget is nowhere near unlimited. Instead of forgoing the map altogether, I decided to create my own: <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02/map8.jpg" /> For those of you who would like to create your own map, I have put together a tutorial: 1. On <a href="http://www.mapquest.com/">MapQuest</a> or any map website, type in your wedding location to view a map of the area. Roughly get an idea of what the land looks like (I.e. bodies of water, edges of land, mountains, etc.) <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02/map1.jpg" /> 2. Using Photoshop or a similar editing program, open a new blank window. (My window size is 640 pixels by 480 pixels.) <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02/map2.jpg" /> 3. Select the pencil tool. Draw the edges of land, and any bodies of water. If your map does not have land edges or bodies of water, skip this step and leave the window blank. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02/map3.jpg" /> 4. Also using the pencil tool, draw lines to make the main roads that your guests will travel. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02/map4.jpg" /> 5. Select the text tool. Type the names of the roads next to the drawn lines. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02/map5.jpg" /> 6. Visit a free font website (I used <a href="http://www.dafonts.com/">this website</a>), and download any Dingbats (icons) you would like to use on your map. I downloaded <a href="http://www.dafont.com/lp-nature.font%20animals">nature</a>, <a href="http://www.dafont.com/sakabe-animal-02.font">animals</a>, <a href="http://www.dafont.com/mostly-waves.font">waves</a>, and many others. 7. Use the Dingbats to decorate your map. I chose a wedding cake and hearts to show the locations of our ceremony and reception. Then, I decorated the land and water using sea animals and trees. <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02/map6.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02/map7.jpg" /> 8. If desired, use the paintbrush tool to add color to your map.   (To check out the original post, click <a href="http://www.weddingbee.com/2009/01/02/diy-wedding-map/">here</a>.) Miss Trophy Bass on "Re: My Wedding Map" http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/re-my-wedding-map#post-1569 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:09:59 +0000 Miss Trophy Bass 1569@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ So.... the Trophy Bass's invitations will be coming in the mail in a few days and I made this DIY Wedding Map to help the guests find the Church and the Reception. What do you think??? It was alot of fun to make and pretty easy. <img src="http://diy.weddingbee.com/my-plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /> MrsDuncan2Be on "My Map" http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/my-map#post-1353 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:53:45 +0000 MrsDuncan2Be 1353@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ So I found a post here about weddingmapper.com and on that website they have a picture tutorial on how to "draw" your own map.. So I used that information to make my own.. I love the way it turned out.. <img src="http://diy.weddingbee.com/pics/48509/my_map.JPG" /> angrybunni on "Watercolor Map Idea!" http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/watercolor-map-idea#post-740 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:58:56 +0000 angrybunni 740@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ Maps are too cute! I'm going to paint my own map, print it, and insert it into our invites.  This is a very rough sketch of the map but what I suggest for those who are artistically challenged but still want the painted look, use watercolor pencils! You draw it out lightly in pencil of what you want, then color it in lightly w/the WC pencils. apply a little but of water at the end of your brush and VOILA! It looks like a cute painting! I used Derwents' watercolor pencils which are pretty pricey so just stick w/the cheapo ones- once it's printed, some of the quality will be lost anyway unless scanned at a high resolution. I used a thin-point black Sharpie marker to make the letters look real bold. <a href="http://projectwed.blogspot.com/2009/07/14-sketches.html">http://projectwed.blogspot.com/2009/07/14-sketches.html</a> angrybunni on "SoAngry's little rustic watercolor map" http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/soangrys-little-rustic-watercolor-map#post-738 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:51:08 +0000 angrybunni 738@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ Maps are too cute! I'm going to paint my own map, print it, and insert it into our invites.  This is a very rough sketch of the map but what I suggest for those who are artistically challenged but still want the painted look, use watercolor pencils! You draw it out lightly in pencil of what you want, then color it in lightly w/the WC pencils. apply a little but of water at the end of your brush and VOILA! It looks like a cute painting! I used Derwents' watercolor pencils which are pretty pricey so just stick w/the cheapo ones- once it's printed, some of the quality will be lost anyway unless scanned at a high resolution. I used a thin-point black Sharpie marker to make the letters look real bold. MCraig on "Wedding venue and hotel maps ..." http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/wedding-venue-and-hotel-maps#post-649 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:19:04 +0000 MCraig 649@http://diy.weddingbee.com/ MrCraig and I live in a separate town that most of our friends and family so nearly EVERYONE was traveling in from somewhere. We decided on one hotel to have everyone stay at so it would be easier to get everyone together when needed. We also thought it would be easier to see everyone rather than going from hotel to hotel. For the folks that are closer and will be driving directly to the venue I also wanted a map that shows how to get there. I placed these maps on cardstock inside of my invitations so everyone would know exactly where they wee going when they got into town. I'll eventually also make a map for my OOT Bags that shows the route from the hotel to the venue itself.