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And here was me thinking you may not have seen that type of egg cup when you hadn't even seen any egg cup !!!! So you have never had: egg and soldiers :(

soldiers?? LOL! how cute! now that's a fancy way to eat eggs and toast! so interesting to see different things from other cultures! anyway, now i can look at your image and just enjoy it since i know what it is! :)

OK Marlene, it's my turn. Do all the stuff Sheila suggested and you could desaturate the blue collar so that it doesn't jump out at you..love the pic..like to see you post it.. and as far a Stridsberging..we need to abbreviate it some..takes me 15 minutes to just type it out...how about Berging..or SBerging...or blah blah blah...lol...

Thanks Sheila.I'll try to do those things...I'm not sure exactly how,but maybe I can figure out a way.Regarding yours...Last night I preferred the color version and today I like the B/W...So now I don't know what to tell you!Except what you've already been told...a little less centered... Thanks Andreas.I love that gorgeous lake shot you first uploaded.And it was the perfect touch to eliminate some of that yellow.The only thing I'd do is crop out a bit of that sky...The other one, I think looks great the way Sheila treated it..It reminds me of an old print in a book... And thank you for looking Ray.I guess it's only Justice,(that's his name),that loves his blue ribbon...LOL! Okay.I'm done Sberging!!!LOL. ;^)

Marlene, if you like, i'll be happy to try my hand at this image and give you step-by-step instructions on what i did. i use PSP. i seem to recall that you use PS. i don't know how easy it would be to convert my instructions since i'm not familiar with PS. but i'd be more than happy to do that! :) just let me know. i'm getting ready to leave for work in just a minute, so i wouldn't be able to start it until tonight. :)

Any way you could help would be wonderful Sheila.Thank you!!!! And yes,I use PS but maybe once you tell me,someone can help translate?We'll see.Hugs and thanks in advance sweetie!!!!

okey dokey! let me see what i can do. :)

well, Marlene...i gotta tell ya, this was a hard image for me to work with. i couldn't do much about the highlights. when i tried to reduce them the regular way (shadows/midtones/highlights), it just didn't work. anyway, here's the color version and my steps in PSP. not sure that this is any better than your original. perhaps the way you did it in the first place is better than with the postwork i did. but here are my steps anyway. 1. crop (that was kemal's idea BTW. i was gonna crop it the way i suggested but decided to show you his version...just as another alternative). 2. curves adjustment (input 48; output 74) 3. bumped up the contrast to 7. 4. then i went to edit and copied the image. 5. then i undid everything i did except for the crop. 6. next, i went to layers and promoted the cropped image to a layer. 7. go to edit, and then paste as a new layer (you'll be pasting in a copy of the image after it has the curves adjustment and contrast added.) the reason i did this is because i wasn't happy with the image after doing curves and contrast. i thought maybe a blending might work better. 8. go to layers, properties and then click on luminence. 9. adjust your opacity to 56. 10. layers merge, merge all.

i decided to show you my b/w conversion. i like it better in b/w because for me the image is a bit busy with all the colors. anyway, if you like the b/w, you could just add one more step to the image above. 11. go to channel mixer and check monochrome. the settings for this conversion: Red 35; Green 33; Blue 35. Anyway, that's my take on your image. like i said...maybe it's better just to keep yours the way it is the way you originally had it. nighty night sister chick! it's 3 a.m. and i'm getting sleepy. *hugs* :)