Tutorial Cartography for Map Figures in Academic Journals & Books
This workshop will discuss approaches and guidelines for creating map figures for academic books and journals. I will use QGIS to illustrate one workflow in a graphical GIS. This general workflow can be applied to other graphical GIS programs or even non-map figures.
This workshop was developed by Dr. Michele Tobias from UC Davis (GPL 3.0 license) and updated to QGIS 3.22 with some minor changes by Dr. Hans van der Kwast, published on GISopencourseware. The original workshop can be found here.
3. Hands On
3.11. Resources
Here are some resources to help you refine your maps:
Inkscape - I use this program for fixing fine details. It's a free and open source vector illustrator program so it is similar, but not the same as Adobe Illustrator. Export a .svg file from the QGIS print composer and open it in Inkscape to edit things like labels with super fine control.