Weird color striations in the sky using photo merge in Elements 10

When I use photo merge in Elements 10 to create a panorama, using photos with the same exposure setting and focal length, i get weird vertical striations in an otherwise perfectly blue sky. Is there a trick to getting a consistently blue sky?

Marianne,
how do you save? Photoshop Elements can save either versions or overwrite the original file, afaik.
You need to set the save preferences, so that it will write to the original file and not write a version. Also the filename extension should be "tiff" and not the default "tif" (I think you did that already).
Regards
Léonie

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