Working upon the contrast for this type of image. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong. More particurly I want to increase the glint of sunlight about 3/4 of the way down the picture on the right side. Bsteph

Here is the unaltered original. Hi Alpha, Please note all work was applied in PSP. 6 What I did to arrive at the above picture was 1. Rotate 90 drgree. Naturally. 2. Resize it to 800 X 600 3. Convert to greyscale. ( It's almost that anyway. ) 3. Increased the contrast. ( Attempting to make the image more b/w like. ) 4. Increased the brightness. It was too dark. 5. Sharpened the picture. 6. Increased the shadow levels to counteract the brightness. 7. Sharpened the picture to bring out the details as opposed to increasing the contrast/brightness. 8. Edge enhanced. Still trying to address the bla bla look. 9. Perhaps one or two more sharpness filters. That's it I hope this help. Bsteph

Opps forgot the image. Here it is. Bsteph

Any Idea how to enhance the sun with a black and white image. It seems to look better as one to me. Bsteph

OH. Of course. Thanks!!! Bsteph

...when I fool with grayscale images, I use normal RGB-image, and simply adjust saturation to -100. You can use any filters you want, ex. that lens flare, and again, adjust saturation to -100. It's easier, and you can have b&w layers and color layers in same pic. Of course the final image is grayscale, but before that, just playing with saturation. .n oh, btw, nice pic.

Oh. Good idea. I never really thought of that. I don't know why. i'M GOING TO TRY THAT OUT. THANKS AGAIN bSTEPH