Coastal Waves in Photoshop

[Carnifex]

I don't where the other thread is, but I suspect you are talking about this layer style:

2016-03-06 14_54_05-Layer Style.png

I tried several variations on this style but none of them were anywhere near as good as the manual one I described in the tutorial. The layer style is quicker and if you change the coastline, the waves change with it, but for an extra 5 minutes work, the method in my tutorial gives much more satisfactory results and can be adjusted easily to your map scale and the number of wave lines.

Exactly. I find it better in all aspects but hat is perhaps a matter of taste.

I actually thought everyone is using the layer style (except if you are doing it by hand of course).