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You can get a nice shaded relief map (3.5meg jpg) from this site: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globega2.shtml Choose the 3 arc-minute grid for better quality. You can bring the image into Photoshope & play around with the hues-sliders to make some nice color changes. Note that the oceans also show elevation as this is made from DEMs. mask-out the oceans & replace your own if you want but don't change the ratio of the proportions for the image(2 to 1), it maps great to a sphere. Use it, you payed for it with your taxes!