...spanking just encourages him... I think you measured the colors using the dropper correctly. It measures cyan, though (particularly guys) sometimes have a real difficult time seeing the difference. There must be a way to measure with the dropper, and then correct by that amount, but I've never figured it out... tutorial?? The strange looking thingy is just the difference between the color corrected version and the nik filtered version, (then adjust levels). I suspect it doesn't mean anything at all, just thought it was sort of cool looking. Wanted to try to figure out what that filter was doing; it is strange. I do like your end result. Do you like it when the Forum goes into in-depth tangents like this? Hugs in any case.