The template has a Color Key sheet effect on the WATER sheet, so if you draw an ocean that covers the map, and then move your land shape to the WATER sheet and use Change Properties to change the fill of that land to Solid and colour 6 (magenta), the land shape will cut a hole through the water to your land.

I drew one here for you, using the Sea, Island drawing tool (which does the same thing)

Then hit refresh (CTRL+R) to see the result.

Ralf's demonstration of the style may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE6L4_KjBc8

In this week's Live Mapping, and inspired by last week's Birdseye Continental style, Ralf will be tackling another texture-based style with Satellite Overland from Cosmographer 3.

Come along and join in the chat on Youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTNHKgjQ6g

Or watch it on the forum here*

*This thread isn't monitored during the show, but is a place where you can continue the discussion afterwards if you want.

Looks better now the grass is more blended :)

I'm wondering if it would be better to have wider edge fade inner effects on a map of this scale - to blend the biomes into each other.

Looking good so far :)