Editing the game board

So here i am trying to edit the game board to look something that isnt just blank tiles. First, i thought about trying to paste in a image....but the proportions were all wrong (cathedral dominated the map) so that didnt work. I then thought about just changing the color of the tiles to brown (to simulate dirt) and drawing a cathedral on the right hand side, but i cannot find any option on the map to do this.The closest thing i can do is draw LOTS of brown rectangles. Which is not really a great solution. Nor can i figure out how im supposed to draw a cathedral. The free hand tool seems to draw nothing but circular shapes. When i try to draw a series of connected lines, it fails miserably. I tried copy and pasting a dirt image onto the map and enlarging it, but now the gridlines are near invisible. Help?

Ok, the first thing is to ask is are you drag and dropping an image or tiles to simulate the dirt? What layer are you doing this on? The default is the token layer which sits above the grid line, you will want to have your dirt on the map layer which is under the grids. Right click and choose your layer that you want the map or tile to be on then go over to the left bar and choose the second box button (below the arrow) to change which layer you are on. To change the size of the map area, you have to go to the map settings (that is the small blue tab at the top right side) and select the gear on the map board you want to resize. Each tile unit is 70 pixels by 70 pixels. and the board is set at 25 units by 25 units at default. The drawing tool has different settings :  Shapes (square and a circle)/ Freehand (don't use it if possible)/ Polyline ( preferred)/Text. Use the polygon line if at all possible (gives clean straight connected lines -  left click your line placement and right click to complete/end your line) In the settings of the board, you can find the controls for the grid and change it's color and darkness along with the size of the grids plus choose hex or square. Does this info help?

Im doing it on the map layer, but it doesnt actually tell me whether its a image or a tile. All i did was search for "dirt" under "maps, tiles, textures". Thanks, that does help quite a bit. Let's say i draw a series of lines to simulate a cathedral with the polygon/line tool. I have set the background color to be brown, how do i change the color of the tiles inside the cathedral only?

I think you will have to use the shape draw tool to do fill colors inside the Cathedral. It will be tedious but you can do it with the squares/rectangles and the circles (hold alt key while using the shape tool). You would have to choose your outline and fill color to be the same color you are wanting but you could do it. Personally I would recommend using gimp or something similar to make your map then drag drop it into your game map board. Less headaches that way.

You can change the background of the map in the page settings (where you set the size etc) to a more brownish colour, it doesn't look much like dirt but its less glaring than the bright white