Blue, I can't answer your questions because I don't know enough myself, but I think you can salvage the picture. IMHO, leave the landscape the way it is, and put a bit more light on the figure, since that seems to be the focus anyway. If it is the pollution that is affecting him/her, we need to be able to see it. By the way, I am seeing this on an mac, so all I see of the landscape are points of light, and the figure is mostly gray-black wings and human that's really hard to make out. Lin