Quoteare those rocks also done with the populator
Neither rocks are made with a populator, they're all fake stones. The ones in the river bed masked by a derivate of the river mask, the others by a mask derived from the sand displacements outside the river area, i.e. restricted to the lowest darker sand areas.
After coloring the stones, I did add some slope restricted sand color on them, and the partly sand covered stones in the right below area are sand covered because they are in the 'gray area' of the river mask.
I tend to like horizontal images as they fit so nicely on the screen. But for prints for hanging on walls, this is different of course. Landscape images also emit more peace, vertical is more 'unbalanced', so to speak.
