Height Problem

You *might* try adjusting the contrast of the Perlin Noise ? Just a random idea, it certainly may not work for ya, but I thought I'd throw something out there ha-ha.

jffe

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You need to reduce the noise.

You're right, as you add noise to the hight map, it looks like it flattens out. The final image still goes to the same light/dark values, but in a much smaller space, which results in an actual or perceptual averaging of the image.

Say you take 30 pixels in a row, in the first image their lightness value might go from say, 20% to 90%.
In the second image that same area might go from 0% to 100% lightness 10 times, which makes it look like a flat 50%.



You also might want to offset the "paint" noise before blending it with the "canvas" noise, (use the "screen" blending mode). Just a thought.

adjust the brightness of layer that is input into height.
and the brightness will control height
or say add levels
and the white points will control height