Thank you so much for the help, that is the best I have ever seen one of the images look from there. Inshaala - I have larger images to work with, I tried the auto color setting but I tried no adjustment on it what so ever. Possibly I did not complete the operation to the best it could calculate. As for option 2, it went right over my head and gained speed. :-} Tanchelyn - $50 is better than ruining a lifetime of images. Possibly Santa is listening and I am on the good list so I can get that for Christmas, I will check with Mrs. Claus tonight and see. I will try the demo software on the rest of the shots and see what I can do. I have several when they received their medals that I would like to improve. Does the colorwasher software work on movies, I took a few video clips that I would like to improve if that is possible? I can always extract the frames, batch process the images if that is allowed, and recompile them back into a new movie. :-))