Thanks all for the suggestions. I was working on this at home when the power went out all over town (is it sad when you come into work at night, just to use a computer that's working off a power generator?). Anyway, I cleaned up the spots on the drape, and darkened up the background, and that improved it quite a bit. I tried cropping some from the left, but it left it kinda unbalanced. Phrank, funny you should mention moving the knight forward. My original intention was to use the scene for my tryptich. I had one shot of the knight on the far side of the board, the shot above, and a shot of the knight right in front of the lense. I was sort of playing with the idea of motion that someone had mentioned last time I posted a tryptich. The close up shot came out totally blurry, though, and my camera doesn't have a manual focus (our company profit-sharing checks come in next month. I'm buying a real camera!). Maybe I'll post the original idea, complete with blurry objects, just for fun. Mysnapz, I like the idea of the sky. That would look pretty cool. I hadn't really intended on doing that much post work to it, but I may play with it some time. Anyway, I'll most likely post the results in the gallery tomorrow. Thanks again for all the help! -Taltos