Enjoy it! Your wonderfull pic deserve it...and it is a moment of joy for an acknowledgement! We feel and share your hapiness! :)

This is a beautifull portrait of a 40 ears old lady that still loof like a young one in the thirties ;-) Your skin is still like porcelain..i like very much the cone contrast of your face over the fine cotton . If you really wish to try some effects, may be a soft glow or artistic blur would be fine too in my opinion..but really light...This portrait is very beautifull!

Funny Jeff..I'm just back from harware forum..and they mentionned the exact same thing about auto white balance..wich I am not using..always low iso as 50 or 100 but will uncheck resampling when do not need interpolation for enlargment ;-) I guess that might be the problem in psp..resample check..with the results of not the best algorythms...;-)

Thank,s everyone for your help..I guess I'll try a few scenarios on a same image to see...and never buy another apn with only jpeg options :-( I've notice what you mentionned Dough..but thaught that it was my imagination as Acdsee seems to do a better job for resizing to! This is a good idea Mihcelle as genuine fractal seems to do a very good job for the jpeg images to resize with soften edges and noise with crispiness! Thank's pascale..!

On exif original I have resolution X: 72 resulution Y: 72 Does it means that my pictures are sorting out of my camera with a low 72 resolution for the web? Why would we have 3 jpegs settings mode? Mine is set to fine! When saving our work for printing we absolutely have to go with 300 dpi for the lab...You think that it might add pixels and noise even when not overpassing the limit print size in 300 dpi he have with the image ???? Sorry..I am a bit confused with the dpi resolution!

Oh! Michelle this issue of the resolution output might be a point too! But I do not know how to figure out the dpi resolution I get from my camera .....The worse.. I never completely understood it..I taught that dpi was a question of just reorganise pixels resolution in an inch...When I do my final crops my resample box is always check..but I never enlarge as to my maximum possibility with 300 dpi for printing size of 5X7....would it be better to uncheck it? Hope to understand this issue one day ;-)

Oh thank you very much for your workflow wich I missed before posting..This is a great help for me..And I will go with this..I am very happy with your help..thank's a lot again Cynlee :)

Yes..this noise remains in part even after noise ninja and amplifies on digital processing! I guess It should be better with putting every setting to the lowest! Thank's a lot for the tips..Cynlee..I'll try it next time! Do you think it might be a good workflow to apply a light gaussian blur after soften with egde preserving ..and ending with a smart unsharp to recover some crispiness?

I guess that any sharpening an saturation done by the camera processor is really bad on jpeg compress mode..Is it possible? I have read that professionnals use to turn it off to avoid noise... Where your settings on sharpenning, saturation off or on?

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There is not interpolation on any of my images !

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I owe a panasonic lumix fz10, wich have a high quality leica lenses and a 4 megapixels. I always duplicate my original to process it...and alway save in tiff at 300 dpi up to the last resizing for jpeg on the web, with a quality of at lest 90%. The problems appear as soon as i apply digital effects of toning and blurring on my tiff copies. I Use psp8 and often nik color effect pro wich is not known to create artifacts..The problem is probably a bad workflow or existing artifacts that are for sure amplified with any digital process I guess ! Thank you Cynlee for help!

Nik Color efex pro is for me the best plug-in I ever had..Since I started to use it..all orhers are almost unemployed..since there is a solution for almost any correction or effect needed..and it does not leave bad artifacts on images..Paint shop pro has often deals combining psp9 - nik color effect and Mystical tint tone and color wich is also fantastic , for 199$ us dollars . These 3 are my fav! You did very good on B&W with this imgage! I prefer too the warmth one ;-)

By the way...I suspect this lady in need of consolation in a companion, tender, lovely, young ,aggressive, that loves adventures....
An adorable sensitive friend.....
Here

http://www.renderosity.com/photos/MSG2/Message2261272.jpg

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Lol..that was the scene I had in mind, wich made me laugh :D

lol..thank's Pascale...I'll remember..''sulky'' Tonight, at exactly 11 pm..when she might get another headache...her husband might be sulky'' was just to practive the new word..lol