Hoofdcommissaris... well, I tried moving it off the background (and putting a white layer underneath it) but I had the same results. retrocity... you can see (have to look close) above in the sample image, the person stood in front of a wall and a person snapped the photo with a flash. This, of course, left a slight shadow on the left side of the photo. That is what I was trying to remove. In the example, if you look closely, you can see where I tried to select (and delete) that thin shadow behind the shoulder. You can see, even though the marquee showed the shadow completely selected, when I deleted it, it left a slightly dark color where it used to be...like it only selected 95% of the area in the marquee while 5% was allowed to "stay". As you can also see, just as a test, I dragged the brush (or eraser, it didn't matter) down into the shirt area. Flipping out of quick mask mode, the marquee showed portions of the shirt now included in the selection area. So, I clicked delete and you see, not everything got taken away. The photo was pulled in (JPG) and edited right on its layer (background). As I said above, I tried moving it off the background by duping the layer, inserting a white layer between them and then deleting the bottom layer (the original photo). Still, the same leftover area.