Okay, I've gone in exactly the opposite direction!  This is the original of my current avatar, straight out of the camera.  I cropped out some blank wall and resized it for the forum, but that's absolutely all I did.  You know Sig was up here in May, so he's seen me in person.  When I changed my avatar after he was here, he said "I like your new avatar!  That's an old photo, isn't it?"  LOL!  Nope ... it was taken in March ... just the magic of postwork!  I did some, a friend who's a bit better at pw than I am did some, and the result is the avatar you see in b&w.  (with me looking a lot younger, apparently!)  

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa