My niece has Communion today so I'll be gone most of the day but when I get back I'll give his tut a look-through and give ya some pointers by this evening. In my experience, no matter the size of the clouds, the Lighting Effects filter seems to render "mountains" at one size fits all. Anyways, I'll check back this evening.
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First off, these look like pretty realistic (but blurry) hills. Second, if you want to get rid of some of them (to have more flat spots) just use a soft-tip eraser, turn down the opacity of the eraser to under 20% and erase out the areas that you want to be flatter...note that this will only work if the hills are on their own layer. If everything has been flattened/merged together then you will have to use the eyedropper tool to select a good green color and then airbrush over the tops of the hills you want to be flatter. You could also go back to the gray-scale layer and airbrush over some areas before running the lighting effects filter.
As for good colors, well...that's all in the eye of the beholder. RobA has a post here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...dient+Goodness
which links to a site that has tons of cool gradients that might help inspire you.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
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