Thanks chick and Ascension.

chick: BUT THEY ARE GIANTS!!! Not buying it... fair enough The trees were the last thing I had done before starting on the rivers, and they were bugging me greatly. Your words brought what was bugging me about them to light

Ascension: That was not the intended effect. I think that when I worked on the layer blending that I chose the wrong type for the trees compared to the mountains. It might also be that the trees are of a different brush set than the mountains. More precisely they are done by two different people.