well, after about a half a bottle of Robotussin, i finally stopped coughing and felt good enough to play around a bit and see if i could make heads or tails of this levels and curves things i've been learning about in here. Pascale, you're right...levels seemed pretty easy and straight forward. Curves are DEFINITELY a lot more challenging!!! I'm using PSP7 and did read the help info. i think it's gonna take me some time to get the hang of curves. Regardless, i sure did have fun playing. Let me show you my stuff. I'd love any advice on this subject & my pics!!! thanks ya'all!!! this is the original photo resized. here's the data: f 4.5 exp 1/500 ISO 64 0 step