Satellite Style Photoshop Terrain - Part 1

[Yrda]

Although this tutorial is old, I gave it a try because I was curious and wanted to try out something new.

This part "Right Click the vector mask for the newly created layer and choose 'Disable Vector Mask'" didn't work for me. I see no vector mask when I create a shape, just a standard layer mask. And if I disable that, nothing happens.
I solved this by just creating a "Color" Adjustment layer with the same settings.

The "Hills" were quite dark in the end, so I changed the layer style of that to Soft Light.

Interesting workflow and I even learned one or to new things about Photoshop (there are filters I never used before ...).
I don't know if you are still active here, kalvinlyle, but thanks for sharing!