Hi Gill, I might not understand your problem fully, but I think that as a newcomer to QGIS a reasonable approach would be to load your OS OpenData map images first and then load the contours. (I'd keep clear of the OpenData contour DXFs if I were you and go for the new contour data in shapefile format.)
Once you have something that looks reasonable on the screen you could then export a high-res image from the Print Composer that could be loaded into Photoshop. >From what you have written I think your base mapping must be OS VectorMap District rasters. If I remember rightly these have a resolution of around 250 dpi so it probably wouldn't make much sense to export an image from the Print Composer at much greater than this. Cheers, Nick. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/new-user-tp5077199p5077664.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user