[Award Winner] My atlas style in PS

[Meloncat]

Ascension, I wanted to give thanks for your amazing tutorial. It seems almost criminal to let even the layman like myself be capable of producing a map of this caliber. I can finally get started on my fiction, so I owe you immense thanks!

About the only problem I came into was with the whole erasing mountains part. I had it as specified (20% flow, 300 px brush), and when I tried to erase the mountains I ended up with rather obvious eraser circles. I think it's merely my own noviceness with Photoshop though, playing with the flow down to 10% and adjusting the opacity gave me what I feel like are better results. Do you know if there's any way we can better direct the 'spawning' of mountains in the preliminary stages, rather than rely on their random emergence? Might be more authentic to geographics that mountains go where they please, but I need to establish some mountain chains in my map, and I'm not sure that randomization will suffice. A more specific question is: At what stage could I begin to tweak how Mountains emerge, and what would I do to tweak them to be more/less plentiful, more in one area than another, ect.

I can clearly see why you won the award, and hope you're given all the more for your great efforts!

[Ascension]

The problem with your erasing is that you are using a hard round brush tip instead of the airbrush tip. I haven't yet begun to start the process of planning where the mtns will end up, so that's why I suggest you use the freeform lasso tool (at the top of the screen set the feather to around 50 px), lasso a nice looking chunk and drag it into a chain somewhere or fill a hole. Oh, and thanks