Here is the unaltered original. Hi Alpha, Please note all work was applied in PSP. 6 What I did to arrive at the above picture was 1. Rotate 90 drgree. Naturally. 2. Resize it to 800 X 600 3. Convert to greyscale. ( It's almost that anyway. ) 3. Increased the contrast. ( Attempting to make the image more b/w like. ) 4. Increased the brightness. It was too dark. 5. Sharpened the picture. 6. Increased the shadow levels to counteract the brightness. 7. Sharpened the picture to bring out the details as opposed to increasing the contrast/brightness. 8. Edge enhanced. Still trying to address the bla bla look. 9. Perhaps one or two more sharpness filters. That's it I hope this help. Bsteph