This original tutorial will go over how to create your own world from scratch using some nifty filter effects while utilizing the color range feature.

1. Begin by setting your foreground color to #0e43b1 and background color to #0a7310. Go to filter>render>clouds.

2. Next go to filter>sketch>note paper. Use these settings. Keep in mind to get the effect which you can see in the next step, the the image balance settings will have a very fine line in which it needs to be set at. In other words, a value of 13 may be too little and a value of 15 may be too much. I found 14 to be perfect.

3. This is what you need to get.

4. Next go to select>color range, use these settings, and select anywhere in the middle of any green part of your document. For the color range preview, white will represent the ‘water’ and black will represent the ‘land’. When you select OK, all your ‘land’ will be selected with a marquee selection.

5. With the selection still active, go to filter>artistic>sponge and use these settings.

6. This is what you should have.