Rapala
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I find the background in this photo especially distracting and I am looking for advice on how to fix it. I have played around with it and have been able to apply a Guassian blur to the background and used the Blur tool to blur the legs and tail to a lesser extent, but I am looking for a way for it to look a bit more believable (or does it look alright?). Because the bird is sitting on the ground the blur needs to be gradual for the birds position into the fore- and background. Photo #1 shows it without the blur and #2 has the blur applied. Any comments on how I could have processed it better are welcome as well (So far it's been cropped, sharpened, and brightness/contrast, shadow/highlight and levels have been adjusted). Does anyone have a way to fix the background (I have CS2 BTW)? Thanks