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Hi there! As others have already said, your maps are probably the best maps I've seen in this site. I'm trying to do one, using the brushes from your maps, but there's a thing that I cannot grasp: How do you make the second shore-line? Your shores are somehow outlined by a bigger line. I'd like to recreate this effect, but I cannot find the way. I would appreciate your help in this. Thanks, and take care!