LOL @ you Pascale!! You're so silly! Yeah, i really so much of what you did with that! Jimmy (grrrrduhbear) sent me a version of it in my email and told me step by step how how fixed her eye, so i will definitely give it a try!!! i like having her other eye visible! sounds like what you did is exactly what i was doing. i played with this one for hours...trying to get it just the way i liked it. Like you said, Pascale, it's a hard image to work with. It was such a crappy image i took...so not easy! where did you do the selective sharpening? Sandra's eyes? oh...you said i don't usually like how you work with my images. i don't????? :( i'm sorry. You're a helluva an artist and photographer, Pascale...you KNOW how much i love your images!!!! i have very unusual tastes and preferences though, and i always have this idea in my head how i want my images to look...sometimes i just have a hard time explaining that or getting that across. anyway, i do like that softening filter you used. i like to soften images too. i use Gausian blur a lot. Is that what you used? Thanks for telling me whatever you can remember!!!!!! I sure do appreciate you taking the time!!! Cindy, i like how you cropped the left and right, but i don't care for Pam's head cut off on the top. dunno why, but it just doesn't appeal to me. I see that done all the time at Photo-Sig, and sometimes i like it, but for some reason i don't care for it here. can't tell you why though. i might try cropping the right and left and leaving the top and see how it looks. i know it makes no sense to do it like that, but what the H__L...can't hurt to try, huh! Thanks so much Cindy for your input and for showing me another way! I'll do more playing with this one! Pam will have so many versions of this it won't be funny!!! :) Sure do appreciate all your help guys!!! :)