Hey everybody, thanks for your comments. WRT the first image, it was a somewhat unconcious choice to not provide any indication of scale. I didn't really think of it at the time, but both the original shot and the crop were set up to eliminate anything except for the side of the building. mysnapz: thanks for the suggestion and example on #3. This is exactly what I needed. I'd gotten stuck in trying to use most of the image, instead of breaking it down into pieces that work. And for some reason, it never occurred to me to change the orientation. -daveh