Maps in Blender 3.5: Custom Height Maps (DEM) + Color Maps (Photoshop, No Plugins, Blender 3.5)

In this video I share a more complex way to create a map like this through the following steps:
1. Create custom DEM(Digital Elevation Model) from a USGS site.
2. Using Photoshop to prep the height map for Blender, and create custom color maps.
3. Using the height map in Blender as a displacement map and then importing the color maps on top of that.

Blender 3.5: https://www.blender.org/download/
DEM created here: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (free account required)
Color Palette Generators:
Poline: https://meodai.github.io/poline/
Coolors: https://coolors.co/palettes/popular/6


0:00 - Intro
1:10 - DEM Generation
4:44 - Photoshop
10:10 - putting it all
Together in Blender