... least I think so, and I can tweak it further in the light (!) of experience. I then added, as you do, further bells and a whistle or two to adjust the colour intensity at the same time, and to allow lightening as well as darkening. If you follow the Stoke Courtenay layout topic on RMweb you may have seen my comments about this on there. Here are a couple of before and after shots to show what's possible. John's original photo with the foreground tracks rather bleached out: 2_171525_250000000.jpg And below with some foreground darkening, which helps to focus attention on the main subject. By fiddling about with the controls I also added a patch of sunlight catching the ground disc and the locomotive front buffers. Probably a bit overdone: 2_171525_250000001.jpg Here's a program screenshot. No file dialogs, the source image is copied and pasted from any graphics editor, and then copied and pasted back when done. If you don't have a graphics editor, you could open files, copy, paste, and save via the picture shapes ...