Aye, ICM, I'd thought to balance the color out a bit in post, aside from my regular necessaries such as KPT6 EQ, Flaming Pear Aetherize and Glitterator and Melancholytron... I understand what you mean about masking the crystals off, just select them, make sure nothing's in the way (volume slabs, stuff like that), render the mask, then use "Select by Color Range" in Photoshop (or the Wand), then "Save Selection" into the working image in Photoshop, then boom... From there just make adjustments or filters to just the crystals. Is that what you meant...? I'm off to check out Fables... Maybe it will inspire me this morning.