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Step 5 – Correcting artifacts
The benefit of tone mapping using layers is that you can manually correct artifacts. Fortunately, this tone mapping technique works well with moving objects and usually doesn’t create any pixilated or obvious artifacts. Unfortunately, because of this, we don’t have a good example to show you. The only artifact we can find is a very slight ghosting from someone standing near the edge of the sea wall. Looking closely, you can see a very faint ghosting. Most people won’t bother fixing this but we’ll do it just to show you how.
First, you need to find out which layer is causing the ghosting. Enable and disable the 
of the two layers inside the Tone Mapping group. Once you see it disappear, that is the layer that is causing the artifact.
Select the layer and enable back the . Click on the 
button to add a layer mask.
Select the Eraser tool (E) from the toolbar then set the hardness to 0%. You can adjust the hardness by right clicking anywhere in the image or, for older versions of Photoshop, set it in the Brushes palette (Window > Brushes).
Erase the affected area. That’s all there is to it!
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