Need help creating an alternate world map

I just want to know how you find a regular world map to change and put on here. Im honestly just a kid without his own computer, so, I cant really download anything.
 
You'll want to go to AH Books and Media, or to the wiki. They have map dumps that you can use.

The keyword is "base map." Good luck.
 
if you can, you'll also want to use Photoshop to make the map rather than Microsoft Paint (for example) because Photoshop is alot more forgiving of mistakes that you make, as well as allowing you to make layers on top of and separate from the actual map, so you aren't permanently covering up whatever you put some color on top of.

you'll also want to have one of our color schemes on hand. depending on what you're going for, use the Universal Color Scheme (UCS) or the Revised Color Scheme (RCS). those cover the most basic countries. there's also TACOS, my own color scheme project, which has alot more options. you can find all of these color schemes via this page
 
Anything I can use that's better than Microsoft Paint without downloading?
Microsoft Paint's really all you need, unless you're going for a fancy map with textures, non-horizontal labels, velc. I only got Paint.NET when I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 and lost the "convert to black and white" function.
 
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