Building from the bottom up (A World)

[waldronate]

Your mountains are likely too wide for their planet. Here on Earth, there are few mountain ranges that would occupy that much of the planet. I'd recommend reprojecting your map into an equal-area projection and then calculating a histogram for elevation to see how well your map does in terms of altitude distribution. Elevation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has a couple of example histograms for elevation here on Earth.

I was going to try to do the processing for you, but then I noticed the FT markings on the terrain (you did mention FT in the original post, but I guess I skipped over that part). I love my child, but those streaks are from where I dropped it on its head a couple of times before it was delivered. The reason that I mention FT is that you should be able to get a good equal-area projection directly in FT before exporting an image, which will make computing things like histograms a lot easier (Wilbur has a histogram tool, but using it on a projection that's not equal-area will give you severely distorted information).

[Paramenides]

That's what I was thinking with the mountains, so I'll take your advice and try messing with it that way. I may try re-evaluating the bump map in photoshop instead.

And that was quite possibly the best analogy for something I've ever heard.