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Not of your work no...if that's what you set out to do then that's all it needs to be.

As for that tutorial though, well, the least said about that the better.

If it were my project I would have used the 'Pen' tool to create a 'shape' for each 'state'....shapes have their own 'fill' and 'stroke' attributes without the need to apply any effects, in this case 'color overlay' and 'stroke'. A further 'shape' for the coastline and a 'path' for the rivers would be all that is needed.

Like I said before, that tutorial really turned something quite simple into a confusing, complex, dogs-dinner of unnecessary procedures....especially including the use of Illustrator.

Regards.

MrToM.