Also, your were right about the outcropings (cartouches) they weren't touching the water and should not have had a long shadow like that. so I added a drop shadow to the compass and moved the text to a different layer and added a drop shadow that brought the text closer to the water and then added some glow around it to make it pop out a bit more. Thanks for pushing me to look a bit more up. I learned a lot.

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