Quote Originally Posted by KungFuCharlie View Post
Thanks for the links to those. Unfortunately after 5 hours of experimentation I have yet to create a mountain range or a forest that I actually like. It looks so easy... but its not.
Haha It looks easy and actually almost is if you already know how to do it by hand and then only reproduce that knowledge via an electronic media.
If you don't , then like Chick said, count a few hundreds hours before you start getting something you like.
Correct mountain ranges are difficult but in my personnal opinion correct forests that don't look like the famous "green blobs" (with or without circles inside) are even harder.

Just stay patient and practice. The tutorials here help doing precisely that.