If you’re ‘perusing’ your files then you might want to light up the pipe and throw on the gown, cravat and slippers. ‘Perusing’ demands a bit more class whilst you can ‘gander’ in your tracksuit pants and runners.
I like how you’ve composd this first one Pat. Maybe a little too much space to the left of the boat? The second is an interisting rock formation but you must be tired – you left the sky without burning? It has potential, as they say.
You certainly made a nice shot of the second one by touching up the sky. Like your shot above I tried to brighten an image I took today using the same method as you did, the only problem was I caught a very defined bright line between the two areas. Do you know how to prevent this from happening.
In it’s simplest form: Feather your selection by a largish number of pixels, somewhere between 100 and 200… it will help lessen the sharp line between the selected and the un-selected.