Lightning

Bailey , it is quite interesting how my quote was placed out of context. More interesting it is the fact that both Simone and I were on the same wavelength. We are both in total agreement re your editing of Helen's image. 

www.photoshopelementsandmore.com/post/47701

Furthermore, Simone and I, as Moderators, were not out of bounds in bringing Rule #3 up to your attention. (If anyone is curious about this rule, here is the pertinent section of it.)

May 13, 2015 22:19:43 GMT Andy said:

Rule 3 - Copyrighted material

You must own the rights to the photos you post here. If you are editing the work of another, you must have their permission to use their photo. For photos posted on this forum, unless given explicit permission to do so by the original poster (OP) of an image, you are asked not to edit, retouch or modify their image as part of giving them feedback. Stock photos for use in contests are allowed, provided they have been obtained appropriately.

And here are the reasons why we, Mods/Admins implemented this rule

Jun 2, 2015 23:31:30 GMT Andy said:

1) There have been some questions raised about forum members providing feedback on other member's posted images, including feedback via editing of the original post. This has caused some concerns, so we've made a couple of changes:
- We've added a new field to everyone's user profile. You now have the option of saying whether you are open to constructive criticism of your photos that you post. This will show up whenever you post, clearly indicating your preference to other forum members. You can set this up by editing your profile (Profile/Edit Profile/Personal). If a member elects to not want constructive criticism of their photos, we ask that everyone respect that. This is a friendly forum and we want to keep it that way.
- We've updated the forum rules to prohibit any forum member from editing the work of another forum member without obtaining permission of the original poster. You must obtain that permission directly - a user who states a preference for wanting constructive criticism of their photos must still expressly give permission to another member to edit their photo.

As Simone pointed out in her post, . . . "going by the wording of your post, you did not get [express permission] from Helen in advance".

Aug 8, 2018 10:36:04 GMT Bailey said:

Spectacular capture and photo hmca

but on my screen there seems to be a bluish colour cast in the image, especially the clouds.  I would think they should be a darkish grey colour.

So unfortunately I couldn't help myself and had to have a tinker with it in PSE . I hope you don't mind.

The histogram's Blue channel shows way too much blue compared to the red and green channels.

So all I did to try to improve the colours was add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer, selected the Blues channel and lowered saturation to -53 and Lightness to -77. On my screen this gives a dark grey tone to the image, especially the clouds. With a Brush set to 50% grey from the Colour Swatches palette I painted everything except the clouds on the layer mask and came up with this:

I think there might still be too much of a blue cast in the bottom half of the image, but that you could edit to suit or just return the layer mask to all white.

Please don't take this as criticism but just as my 2c worth of food for thought

Why don't you just follow Pete's advice and move on?

Aug 9, 2018 2:46:06 GMT PeteB said:

Aug 8, 2018 22:38:33 GMT Bailey said:

I didn't think I was breaking any rules because in my Playing with Landscapes and Colours thread hmca and PeteB downloaded my image. PeteB clearly edited it without me asking when he posted that he tried hmca's solution and it worked.

Bailey

Rule 3 seems to speak to the re-posting of another person's image (without permission). For the record, I did not re-post your landscape image. Please, do not drag me into this controversy and make me a scapegoat. If you did not have permission to edit and re-post Helen's image, apologize and let's move on. This is suppose to be fun!