Thanks Cyn! :) To what Gerhard said (in short as i do miss some words too): Working with gradients and other techniques are used in a dark chamber in analog photography too. In his opinion (to which i do agree) this kind of postwork doesn't really change the original picture and therefore is no "postwork" at all. According to this, it is postwork, if the picture is changed that much, that is a new picture. Of course, there isn't a hard cut (my words, not Gerhards) :) hugz Thomas