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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3057409" data-attributes="member: 7177">Now load "VegetationLayer.png" into GIMP.Let's start with the plains. Select all areas you intend to be plains with the Magic Wand. Now create a new, all-white layer named "Plains". Go to the new layer and bucket fill the selected area with the color 00f817. Deselect everything and apply a Gaussian Blur with 40 px.Again, pick the background color with the Color Picker and transform it to Alpha. Duplicate the layer and merge it.Now apply the following:Filters->Noise->Scatter HSV with 2/70/160/10Duplicate the layer.Apply Filters->Generic->Erode to the duplicate, set its transparency to 50%, and merge it with the original.Layer->Color->Hue-Saturation with 0/-50/100Filter->Artistic->Softglow with 10/1.0/1.0Filter->Distorts->Wind with Wind/Lef/Leading/10/10That's it for the plains! Looks nice, doesn't it?Now let's switch to the deserts. Go to the zone outline and select the desert regions with the Magic Wand. Create a new white layer named "Deserts" and bucket fill the selection with ffeb42. As before, deselect everything, apply a Gaussian Blur with 40 px, turn the background color to Alpha, dublicate the layer and merge it again.Now apply the following:Filters->Noise->Scatter RGB with 0.2/0.2/0.2/0Filters->Blur->Motion Blur with Linear/15/135Duplicate the layer.Apply to the copy:Layer->Color->Brightness-Contrast with -100/100Turn the color black to Alpha.Erode the layer and unify it with the original.Now merge the Plains and the Desert layers and save them as "VegetationColor.png".Then add the other layers - Moutains, Rivers, Oceans - that you have created previously. The vegetation must be below all other layers with the exception of the white background! Now you have a finished Background image - save it under the same name as before, and you can immediately use it under Inkscape!While I like the general effects, they have several downsides:- It is hard to get the vegetation zones precisely the size you wanted them to be. Does anyone here have any suggestions for this?- They don't look good in greyscale, either.If anyone has any ideas how to cope with these, I am all ears.Apart from that, I created these effects purely through random experimentation with various filtering effects. If anyone has a better combination of effects - or ideas how to create other vegetation types - please tell the rest of us how you did it!</blockquote>

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