Thanks Virgil I appreciate your comments. I really have a good time taking
many of my older photos and working with them to make them better. Most of the
work in these portraits are really made possible with a program called Painter
which has a cloning tool. Painter is to fine artists what photoshop is to
photographers. I am no fine artist and use only a fraction of the potential that
painter offers but I am working hard to better understand the program and make
use of its outstanding potential. A quick look on the web under painter brings
up work of some fine artists doing some incredible work with this program
that was originally owned by meta tools or something like that and I believe is
now owned by Corel.... Not sure though...
Vic