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This second shot really works for me.

The first shot with the pasted moon needs to have some glow around the moon. Note in the original shot the sky is glowing around the moon (caused by the thin clouds in the sky). You need to try to get that same glow around the pasted moon and also the suggestions from Buddy.

Maybe the second shot could us some "moon glow" too.



I can't slip anything past you guys. I guess that's one of the reasons I post in the critique forum. Of course you hit on the real problem of trying to paste in a moon. There are in fact clouds that the moon is behind that blur it. In the pasted version of the first image I did blur the pasted in moon, but probably not enough. In the second one I blurred the moon to a greater extent and actually tried to get a "glow" effect by putting a little larger blurred moon on a new layer between the moon and the background. That did not work that well but did give a better effect that on the first image. I think the fact that the sky in much darker in the second image also works better with the pasted in moon.

I think I've gotten some great feedback on these images and thanks to all.

Geo

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