Great
Now I feel like a complete and total noob in photoshop. I didn't know free transform has that ability and was dicking around with filters, etc.
My method usually works, but I guess it crapped out because the image was so wide.
Oh man... knowing this would of have saved me so much time in the past..
[edit - meant to post this before heading to banff, whoops - thanks to both of you - sorry for the delay in responding... I'll toss up a new version once I go through my banff pics )