How to apply Swiss-style shaded relief on Photoshop?

[waldronate]

One important detail about that style of cartography is that it doesn't have "correct" lighting. The lighting direction varies to best show local features. There are also some ways that the tones blend that aren't obvious in the article that you referenced. Bernhard Jenny did a fair amount of work on the subject a while back. http://www.cartography.oregonstate.e...yleShading.pdf is a good reference for doing this on a computer. Also take a look at Tom Patterson's site ( http://shadedrelief.com/ ) for some good examples of how to get the delicate details associated with this style.

[Skalimoi]

One important detail about that style of cartography is that it doesn't have "correct" lighting. The lighting direction varies to best show local features. There are also some ways that the tones blend that aren't obvious in the article that you referenced. Bernhard Jenny did a fair amount of work on the subject a while back. http://www.cartography.oregonstate.e...yleShading.pdf is a good reference for doing this on a computer. Also take a look at Tom Patterson's site ( http://shadedrelief.com/ ) for some good examples of how to get the delicate details associated with this style.

Thank you for that reference! Aside from that article, I spent a fair amount of time researching documents such as that, but they only described the "manual" way and not a correct reference on doing it with a computer, and the only ones I could find mentioning that were not concise enough. I'll try this to see if it works now that k have a better heightmap.