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    Default How do I do realistic mountains top-down?

    Hey guys!

    Ive been wondering how I can get realistic top-down mountains done in Photoshop - since I can't (and don't want to) use Wilbur due to the lack of flexibility and the fact that I use a Mac - I've been testing around with some techniques.

    Different colored layers of bevel/emboss kind of looks unnatural, like this (even thou this was very quick, it will not go in the same direction):

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    It's kind of embarrassing to me to even ask this, since I have the feeling I normally could figure something like this out by myself, but I'm missing diversity. Sure, drawing everything be hand, every hue, every crack, etc. would work, but on a map with the size I have this really isn't a viable option. I was going for something like this:

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    Well, I hope you can help me. Didn't find any tutorial or tips really working towards something like this.
    I'd be thankful for any advice... it's proven harder than I imagined.


    Cheers,
    Steffen
    Last edited by SteffenBrand; 04-09-2015 at 02:39 PM.
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