Okay, first things first. It was partly sunny, as they say in the south here, but it was in a vase on my table on the porch under a white umbrella LOL. F-stop was 2.0. As you can see from the original, on the final pic I used unsharp mask (on just the one layer--the original) and when I merged all the layers, I added just a teeny eensy bit of illumination/flood (custom) in PSP7.02. As I said, I had several layers and on one of them, I used the KPT5 Blur-camera optics. I masked the iris and deleted it from the top layer with the blur. Diane Diane