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Originally Posted by kenan
...The mountain shading doesn't quite work for me, though. But I don't know what to advise to improve it since it's a technique I'm struggling with.I agree they aren't quite working, it may be that the shading is to deep. I just now tried lowering the opacity on the shading layer to 50% and that seems better. I also plan on adding a color layer to add some whites, browns and greens to help differentiate the elevation and vegetation, maybe that will help as well. Thanks for the observation
