Thanks, it was good enough. It took me a couple of minutes to do both enhancements. <A HREF="http://www.spiritsites.com/stocks/smoke.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.spiritsites.com/stocks/smoke.jpg</A> <A HREF="http://www.spiritsites.com/stocks/smoke1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.spiritsites.com/stocks/smoke1.jpg</A> Smoke1 is a simple contrast & brightness tweak. Smoke is a clone overlaying smoke1 darkened smoke cloud onto the original photo with a clone tool, leaving the buildings with normal contrast but making the smoke tarker. The Reuters hack job was way too amateurish to be believed.