My first try at worldbuilding

[Lathorien]

Actualy I copied the colors used in the wilbur shader to the texture for the greyscale hightmap. It´s not an exported colored picture, I just got used to the colors starring at them for what felt like hours. Colours have been changed. Colorintensity was taken out but the change isn´t great enough right now to justify a new update on the map. I changed the ocean too because I thought the outer shine was to strong and the border to the deep see too aprupt ( spelling? ) Is there a tuturial around how to make a broken threefold coastline around ( the rings around the islands but with breaks in it )? I´ll try to do some more work tomorrow, until then thanks for the comments.

i use a gradient ala Ascension (like white, brown green) for a boreal area (or white, brown, dark green, light green, tan, and then revese for a global) but taking the colour right from Wilbur is good to, gives it that proffesional modern look. I like it, and as they said it is a very good map as it is, on thing you got better than me is the low land areas, i get more intence hills which is cool, but for fantasy maps where used to a lot "flat" space and your looks perfectly in the middle.

Good to see another good GIMP mapper!

http://lathorien.deviantart.com/#/d30lbjx
here is a newer example than the ones here, it shows the rivers cut in. (still improving the rivers)

i will also upload the pictures of the rough grayscale i made in 5 min by hand, and then what it looked like when it came out of wilbur to deviant art too ( i cant stand uploading and attaching files here anymore)