Cheers, Smeggy! I realised that the shot was underexposed, and that was the first thing I attempted. I raised the exposure just a touch, and tried to progress from there. As you say, the hair presents a challenge all on its own! Although you upped the exposure, I think perhaps you've inadvertently "overcooked" the colour temperature, as it looks a wee bit too "orangey" on my monitor.

Thanks for the feedback though - much appreciated!

I can load it into Flickr, but if the prize has to be a Pentax 645D for the best effort, then you will all have to wait until I win the Euromillions!!

I was going through a myriad of photos that were shot in Thailand last month, and I came across the below image (although I don't remember having taken it), which I think would make a great portrait once the distracting background was taken out, and a cleaner, better background was put in place, and a general clean-up. I had a bit of a play with it this morning before going to work, but the best effort still had quite a bit of "colour-fringing" in the edited image. Any photo-shoppers know how best I should tackle this, or is it worth getting a professional to do this for me?

As I understand it, Adobe's plug-in's are cumulative, for example V1.0 supports cameras A, B, and C. V1.1 supports D, E, and F as well as A, B, and C...

It would seem a bit daft for their latest version to strip out support for previous cameras just so that the latest update supports only the K-30, K5ii, and K5iiS.

I don't think it's a fault with the card - it's more likely that a corrupt card would have image pixellation, or similar, rather than colour issues. That leads me to guess that there is a problem with the sensor, although this will be either confirmed (or eliminated) by JOHNX's suggestion of resetting to the factory defaults.

Edit: I just noticed the pink "fringing" on the right-hand side of each image. Since the image sensor is typically made up of 3 layers (red, green, blue), I'm wondering if a hard jolt of some sort has caused these layers to fall out of sync, in the same way that if you disturb the layers of the LCD in a digital clock/watch, the display goes all "funny"??...

Great set! I particularly like the last shot (the hotel). I'll also make a mental note that if I'm ever in Kalgoorlie, I must take a "tour" of the Questa Casa!!

Philip - I used to live in Maidenhead, and quite often I'd pop over to Marlow, so I was surprised that there are no signs of any swans in your shots. There used to be loads of them near the bridge. It's also unusual to see the bridge without cars on it - it's usually heaving!

If you are looking for some more inspiration in that area, take yourself to Maidenhead Bridge, and walk northwards towards Cookham. There's some great views there.

I agree with Gamka's suggestion, Malcolm. Hook the camera back up to the pc, then click the SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE tab (you'll find this near your clock on the bottom-right of your screen).

Glad you got it resolved, Malcolm! As a standby, get yourself a recovery tool on your pc. I use Iolo's Search and Recovery toollink. I think it has a free trial feature, but if you use it and like it, it's worth the small fee just to have it there. Note though, that it is an annual subscription.

I understand that you have already pulled the photos off of it, right? That being the case, browse to the camera (with the card installed), right-click then select PROPERTIES. From there, select TOOLS. You should see at least 2 options - one allows you to do an error check, the other to defrag. Select the error check, but click both boxes (scan for errors AND repair errors). Once you get the all-clear, there should also be an option to format the card - do this in the FAT32 file system (cameras don't recognise NTSC, for some reason!). Once you've achieved that, fire off a couple of test shots untethered to your pc, then when you are ready to view/download the test shots, hook up to the pc. Hopefully you will now be able to grab the photos without any hitches.