Damn! You guys are a tough crowd! But I love it. I'm learning a lot here.

As God is my witness, with my monitor and my viewing software, I really cannot see the edits after I've done them. Probably its just that I am a total klutz with my primitive editing tools, but darn it, I really thought I was doing pretty well with them.

The edits aren't random... they are my clumsy attempt to ameliorate some very distracting and very bright lights in the foreground. This was a 40-second exposure at f8, and the street lights and that damned OXXO sign are practically blinding. I betcha you can't see where I had to get rid of about 20 stars that had turned into streaks in the sky because of the long exposure.

You're right, I tried (clearly ineffectually) to use a clone tool to cover those lights. Some of them were not well done, but I thought others were OK. I worked over six different places, do they all stick out? How can I do this better?

tanstaafl.