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Originally Posted by Tiluchi
Posting another semi-yearly update on this, now that I've finally made some progress on doing a shaded relief map. Still pretty much a novice at Photoshop so this is the result of a great deal of trial and error with lighting effects and various filters. Still need to go through and work on some of the climate boundaries to make the map look a little more "natural" but I'm starting to be happy with the general style. I'm not going to be able to make the detail necessary for a proper realistic-looking DEM so instead I tried to make the shaded relief a little more artistic- sort of like the older style of physical maps National Geographic used to put out (albeit not nearly as good).
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