Hello all-- I am a fairly long term, but still mostly not-very-good, GIMP user. I received a roll of pictures back that are dreadful. I cannot imagine what happened--you know how these whiz-bang cameras do everything for you--but most of the pictures look like this: http://www.bsmanagement.com/llywelyn/images/cyruscyrusxcf.jpg I have placed an xcf version (whopper!) of this charming boy out there--and I would be eager to see how to improve it. I have struggled with it, playing with a number of settings, but cannot really improve it. The boy has rather pale skin, the tiles should be white. If anyone wanted to work on it and send me a description of the steps they took, I'd be more than happy to post them and let people evaluate different methods of repair. The tutorials I've read are useful, but this picture has so many things wrong that I just don't know what to do in what order. Any takers? -- Thanks! Jim Clark