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Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:37 pm**

Liked the shot, not the stuff so . . .

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Added cloud layer. changed blend mode to darken, added a layer mask to smooth the cloud.tree transition.

Added a saturation layer (two actually) and used layer masks to tweak selected layers.

Left to water reflection alone.

Will post the final to my Rifle Road gallery.

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:22 am**

Looks great, John

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:38 am**

Looks great John!

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:06 am**

Wow, looks wonderful John! :biggrin:

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:09 pm**

Great job,John. The clouds look like they were there all along.
Chas

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:20 pm**

Nice job, John,

Probably like most others, replacing a nothing sky was one of the first things I wanted to learn how to do with Elements. And, probably like most others, I thought first of pretty blue with fluffy white clouds. I have now tried to add more gray sky with character to my "sky file".

This image is a perfect example of what I hope to accomplish more of.

Rusty

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