RobA's Artistic Regional Map in Gimp Tutorial - Revised Presentation

[robsawn]

Part 2, step 4, that gradient. I just get a white or black field all across the preview window.

[Freodin]

Part 2, step 4, that gradient. I just get a white or black field all across the preview window.

Hm. The preview window shows just a small part of your image. What happens when you apply the Gaussian Blur?

This is what should happen.

You have an active layer with a pure black and white shape of your land and sea, right? You have no active selection. You apply a Gaussian Blur, with a rather big value (800 was the value given in the tutorial.)

This should, well... blur between the black and white, resulting in a rather smooth gradient all over your image.

What happens instead?