No. 1 - and I voted! Terrific set Judith Ann.

An amazing image Paul. Chris has described why it works so well. I find religious icons like this both trite and fascinating in equal parts. So i'll look forward to more images in this series.

A word of warning - Mr Cad don't mention the condition of the lenses in the listing. I bought from them once and the lens was dog-rough.

Unfortunately focus is not on the bee, or the flower. I think it's really crucial that the bee is the sharpest point in the photo.

The ladybird is by far my favourite. Is there some sort of posterisation effect going on in the background though?

Cute! I especially like no 2. It's a great little lens, and it shows that to get great iq you don't necessarily need expensive kit.

I agree entirely.

Photoshop has a maximum file save limit of 2GB. I know, because I reached it at work - I had an A0 drawing with about 30 layers! I had to downsample the image to 150ppi which was fine for the colour-rendered masterplan I was working on.

You can save in a format called Large Document Format link (possibly full version photoshop only) but if your files are that big, you should maybe ask yourself, do I need such high resolution images? At 300ppi, your canvas should be 16500 pixels, at 200ppi, 11000 pixels.

Have never heard anything about XP Home only being able to handle files up to 2GB. I don't think upgrading to XP Pro would be of any benefit.

I was confused because you said pef, which is the raw format. Yes you'll need to work in psd format if you've got layers. At the point where you no longer need layers, save a jpeg and work on that, but keep a psd file with layers in case you need to go back.

Definitely convert to jpeg after your basic adjustments, before doing anything complicated. Try clearing your undo memory from time, save close and restart windows if things are getting too slow. Get used to frequent tea breaks while the blue bar creeps across.