This thread at the Cartographer's Guild is where I'm posting the work in progress.
Mountnman, I did fiddle with the lightning plugin somewhat last night, but it isn't *quite* right. It's really close, but the shapes are off no matter how I adjust the settings. And then I tried quad/reshape or whatever it's called, and got some interesting distortions with *some* taper, but again, not really what I was looking for.
Sarkut, if we keep this up the holiday police will come after us. International Talk Like A Pirate Day isn't until September. Matey.
Anyway, if you follow the thread over yonder, the most recent image I have was done by flattening my basic "land" layers into a .png, loading that into a terrain thingy called Wilbur, and using it to calculate where water *would* flow, hence where the valleys and rivers would form. But I still run into a problem: even though I can bring that back over into PDN, and I know how to bring it in as a layer in my current map, I can't figure out a decent way to get those rivers in place on my land without hand-tracing them all (in which case they still look, well, painted on) - and I'd prefer to be able to do the whole thing in PDN anyway, rather than rely on some other program to draw them in for me. It's kind of a thing with me, being over on a forum dominated by GIMP-users - no matter how friendly and helpful they've all been. I don't mind having Wilbur do the calculations if I have to, but I'd rather be able to make PDN do the drawing rather than borrowing Wilbur's picture, if that makes sense.
Anyway, I really appreciate you both taking a look at this for me. I'll try just about any suggestion you offer, and let you know how it goes.
Cheers!
Heather