Hi Acorn,

Thanks. Yes, I should have had more faith in the background erase function! I was avoiding it because I didn't think it would handle the holes in the trees very well.

After background erase I had to repaint the ridge line and magic-erase an artefact at the end of the street. The trees are a bit fuzzy around the edges but I think it looks OK:

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