I started this post last night and stuffed it up due to severe sleep deprivation... (1) Thankyou everyone, who took the time to "cheer me up" and visit and comment on my site...I had no idea there were so many celebrities posting under assumed names at Renderosity!! :-)> I'm very happy now! (2) Image above: Antoonio asked me how I got the "Raw" look in this image. Partly Niko, I think it was a bit overexposed to start with...I had been mucking around with the exposure settings on my digital and forgotten to reset them in this instance...Then (in photoshop) I made two copies of the background and used one as a contrast adjustment layer, and the topmost layer as a fairly heavy unsharp masking layer. I just fiddled with the opacities of both these layers until it looked good to me...