[WIP] Cora

[Sleaker]

Okay I'm having some issues with my map, I've created it in photoshop using Jeremy Elford's tutorial, which I have to say is amazing. The problem I am having as you can see in the pictures is the mountains are coming out a bit too bumpy, I've tried rendering the mountain texturing at a lower resolution to attempt to give it less variance, but that didn't seem to work quite as much as I hoped it would. It also ends up lightening the whole map greatly. I'm not sure how he got his 'mountain' layer to blend in as much, along with some of the other information that was unfortunately left out on settings he used
Here's before and after mountains

The other question I have is, what are some good RGB colors for texturing such as how he got the darker faded look in the end with his map, mine seem to be a bit too vibrant and I've had to put an all black fade onto it to tone it down a little. It works, but it'd be nice to have a bit more brown in all the colors to begin with.