Using my own rule of thumb, I never use colored borders anymore, the DO take away from any image imho. I either use blakc or white and add a sliver of the dominant color (usually 1 pixel) I responded to your IM. I hope I gave you enough information. Be sure to use edge preserving smooth after step 1, I use a setting of 3, to remove artifacts and noise. If you have any more questions feel free to ask. Here is my reply that I replied via IM: Hi Jared! I use PSP not PS so the steps may or not be close. I am going to try to explain this as best I can OK? 1. Open image is psp. 2. Take original image and go to "effects" "enhance photo" "automatic color balance" 55% temp = 6515 (which is about = to sunlight) uncheck remove color cast and apply. The go to "effects" "enhance photo" "contrast" and I played with the settings. I think it was darken, mild and flat. Then I go to "effects" "enhance photo" "saturation" and make it more colorful and bold. 3. Now duplicate two images (use shift D). 4. Go to one of the duplicates you made in step 3 and go to "effects" "blur" "gaussian blur" using a radius of 5.57 (because the longest edge on the image that used of yours was 557 x XXX) now copy it and go back to the original image and add it in as a layer. Now go to "layers" "properties" and I think for this layer I used the blend mode saturation, adjusted the opacity to where I liked it. And when I added the third copy "as is" I used the mode screen and adjusted the opacity to where I thought it looked best. I then went to layers, merge layers visable and saved. Open your saved image again and applied crop. Geeze I hope all that made sense... it only took a few minutes I swear! Anymore questions, feel free to ask! Brenda :)