Harz area, semifictional

[qqrq]

Hi!
After a lot of lurking I would like to show my first try: regional map of Harz mountains area in Germany, prepared for my Ars Magica saga settled here. I used Photoshop and Terraficta template found long time ago somewhere (by the way, i missed downloaded buildings from this template, anybody can help there?).
This is still work on progress but please, any advices and help are welcomed... for me effect is little to noisy, but I don't have idea how to deal with a lot of forested area...

[Francissimo]

nice and promising map. Maybe you can add some details to your grass layer that i found too smooth, maybe a texture effect or just add a little noise (filter render noise, then a small gaussian blur on the layer)