Fumbling through the non-destructive mapmaking tutorial

[jelmore]

With the coastlines - forget the jiggle filter and the ocean ripple filter (which is a poor substitute - and the jiggle filter was never brilliant anyway) - use instead Old Guy's tutorial on making crinkly coastlines - it gives you so much more control and a much more 'natural' look and it's fast.

Boy howdy, that is a great tutorial! Thanks for pointing it out!

[jelmore]

And your example of blending patterns works great as well.

So there really is no need for the middle white layer in my walkthrough example, is there? I was curious why that sea had three layers while the other pieces only had two:

[ravells]

I can't find the orignal file (grrr) but I think the middle white layer probably had just a pattern layerstyle on it.