Thanks Craig. What do you mean by "copied into"? I kind of know what your getting at, but the boat was acyually there. lol. I think you're right though - after alteration, it looks like the boat has been added to the image. It's the halo that does it. It appears after you use the solerizing filter on Photoshop, which I used in order to get the sky the way it is. It would probably take hours and a great deal of patience to make it go away...