Old School Mapping in Photoshop

In honour of the news that Wizards will be reprinting the 1Ed core rulebooks I thought I'd go old school and put together a quick old school map.

This is less a min-tute as a set of guidelines:
• The walls were placed using the tips on grids from earlier this week: [link]
• The colour is key to getting that old school feel - it's #18769d
• To add the grid, open this file ([link]) in Photoshop and go to Edit->Define Pattern. Now you can flood fill a region with a grid by going to Edit->Fill... and choosing Pattern -> 100px grid. Lock the transparency and fill with blue to get the old school blue grid.
• The doors are white squares stroked with blue
• The statues are just a circular graphic (you can download it here: [link])
• I used arial bold for the secret door label, again stroked with blue (Layer Styles->Stroke)

The (much longer) Gimp version of this tute can be found here: [link]