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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kensanata" data-source="post: 3343720" data-attributes="member: 47845">For all the Gimp Headz out there...I'm working on it!<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/390189809_cf73738c89.jpg?v=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />(<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kensanata/390189809/in/photostream/" target="_blank">Flickr Page</a>)Using the Gimp, I had trouble importing the Photoshop brushes. I've read on various web pages that you can either convert old brushes using a command-line tool, or you can just use the brushes as-is if you have a new Gimp. I'm using 2.2.13 and haven't managed. If anybody knows how to do it, let me know. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You absolutely need the <a href="http://users.telenet.be/ev1/gimplayereffects_en.html" target="_blank">Layer Effects</a> plugin!So I drew the land and the ocean and filled both layers with colors, and then, since I had no brushes, I added noise instead. I used one transparent layer with noise at about 67% opacity and "substraction" mode, gaussian blur with radius 5, and another transparent layer with green noise at about 90% opacity in "addition"mode, gaussian blur with radius 3, just to give the land-mass and the oceans a slighly different "feel".I then used the layer effects plugin as suggested, using "Add Border (stroke)" and "Outer Glow", experimenting with the parameters and the layer opacity to get the desired effect.I can provide the XCF file on demand.As you can see, the colors are still too regular on a large scale. I'll have to experiment a bit. Not knowing what JVisgaitis is going to do next, I did some experiments resulting in some rather dark patches, because I liked the looks of it. Might be inappropriate when we start placing mountains, however: <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/390334814_996b057d7e.jpg?v=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Create a new layer, render plasma cloud with turbulence around 4, desaturate it (resulting in a black and white layer), duplicate it (resulting in a cloud layer #1  and #2). Move to the ocean layer, choose alpha to selection from the transparency menu, move to cloud layer #1 and cut (leaving a cloud landmass), move back to the ocean layer, choose alpha to selection again, invert it, move to cloud layer #2 and cut. Now you have two cloud layers, one applying to the ocean, and one applying to the landmass. I set the ocean clouds to subtract mode at opacity 40 (if subtracting too much, the ocean turns black), and the landmass clouds to subtract mode at opacity 70...Yikes, I'm learning more Gimp in half an hour than I wanted to know in years! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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