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Now from a purely technical standpoint, Sharpening a landscape image is exactly the same as sharpening a portrait or any other kind of image, but there are some aesthetic considerations that you might want to consider when sharpening a landscape image. Number one, clouds by their very nature are soft and puffy and if that's the kind of cloud cover that you want then obviously you don't want to sharpen the clouds, but however, you might want to bring out some detail in these trees and the rocks, and in the water in the river in the foreground, so how do we do that? Well, the first thing we do is decide what size the image is going to be. Remember in our lesson about Sharpening we learned that the first thing you have to know is what is going to be the use of the image. If this is going to be for the Internet then we do one thing, if it's not, then we do another. So what we're going to do at this point, I think, is we're going to choose a typical 6 by 4 dimension on this and then crop accordingly, and we'll keep that, and we want to increase the size so that we can see what we're doing and then go to that middle Layer that we have established, go Enhance, Unsharp Mask, and let's take a look at the setting that we have. I believe we can go just a bit more aggressive on that, so let's go to 75 percent and that's all that we need. Then we hit OK, take the top Layer, come get our Erase Brush, let's see we've got Ð really we can go to 100 percent on this immediately because we are bringing in nothing but Sharpening, and the Sharpening has been adjusted to where we want it, so go straight to 100 percent on your Opacity and simply paint over and you will see the Sharpening revealed, yet the clouds are going to remain soft and puffy, if that's what you want. Now, if you want sharp detail in clouds, which some people like that, then you would just, you know, not do any of the layering at all, you just simply adjust the entire image, but looking at this I think it's much more aesthetic. It's all my only personal opinion, but it's much more aesthetically appealing to have detail in the trees and the water but let the clouds be what clouds are, and that is soft and puffy without a lot of definition. You've got good contrast in there, you've got a nice cloud pattern there that looks very good the way it is, let's don't, let's don't disturb what nature intended. And so there you have, very simply, how to do Sharpening in most landscape images.