peru The Andes, Peru

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Please give me your comments and rating. Thank you.

Beautiful scene Brian - with the atmospheric clarity landscape photographers dream of. However, I think your technique for adding movement to the clouds has spoiled the shot. I'm not sure how you did this (there are so many ways of doing the same thing in PS) but I'm guessing you duplicated the layer, applied motion blur to the lower layer and then cut the sky to reveal the motion blurred shot underneath. Unfortunately, this results in some of the mountain being motion blurred too! There are a couple of easy ways around this - on the layer you are going to blur, clone in sky over the mountain ridge sufficiently far to prevent it appearing when you apply the blur. An quicker method is to select the whole image to be blurred, then stretch the layer downwards using the move tool, and then apply the blur. Either way, you can avoid the give away streaks of granite. Hope this helps, RickDB

Thank your very much for your comments. I agree. The technique I used for adding movement to the clouds has spoiled the shot. I have made a new and better copy. Thanks again.

Best regards

Brian

Much better! - now its worth a 6, Cheers, RickDB