...of pictures, that is. My trip to Venice has been a real learning experience. And if I compare my latest pics with the ones I made some months ago, there is definately a big improvement. But I still have a long way to go. In the mean time, I'm concentrating on the Digital Darkroom (Photoshop 7) experimenting with adjustment layers, curves, sharpening methods etc... I've read your comments on my last series and tried to apply some of your conclusions to these two photo's I took in Burano (Venice) last week. Photoshop used to manage contrasts & colours + "smart sharpening" using alpha channels (if you like, I could explain that in a "mini-tutorial")