Thanks for the suggestions - I will take a look

That's really cool.

Does anyone have any suggestions for focus stacking software? I don't have Photoshop and don't plan on buying it anytime soon ...

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One of the pictures I wanted of New York was 'that' cliched shot of the skyline behind Brooklyn Bridge. Unfortunately the bridge was covered in scaffolding.

John - I agree with your sister in law, personally I'd like to ban them from public places

Not cheating if it's about the image rather than an accurate record of events. I would have probably chosen a dark sky or lightning to give it a more 'horror movie' feel.

I'm currently tweaking all my recent holiday photo's to give them a more pleasing look.

I have had that issue about 2 years ago with Picasa and there was no fix available then. I eventually went to Lightroom but that's obviously not free.

It opens correctly initially as it's just previewing with the embedded jpg, but once it opens the raw file it messes things up.

Pity as Picasa is quite good for what it is.

Prefer the colour ones myself, the b&w look a little overdone.

I can see my office in no 2!

CameraWorld have the Tamron 17-50 new for £259

I guess it depends how you are used to using the browser as I've never right clicked a url as I have a plugin that allows me to drag & drop links to a new tab and for many things I use keyboard shortcuts rather than the buttons across the top. I would find it annoying if that was my way of working though ...

To be honest I used to use IE7 with the IE7Pro plugin, then when that didn't work in IE8 I switched to firefox + plugins to recreate the same functionality.

I didn't find Firefox 3.6 any faster than IE7 or IE8, and I don't think Firefox 4 is any faster than 3.6? I mustn't pay enough attention!