David Dyer-Bennet : I've now run it on some photos of my own. It's going to take a while to : get used to, and I think for "real" use, the masking will be important : (which I haven't played with yet). I tried a few landscapes with broad stretches of water and a figure close front foreground by protecting the person - the results were sort of alright initially, but for broad restretching, selecting areas of the water to 'delete' gave them less weight in the image and the results appeared better - it defined these areas as acceptable for stretching rather than letting the program go mad on all areas other than the protected ones. better again was to protect the figure for a vertical resize and an initial small stretch, then masking the sacrificial areas, those with less weight, for a final broad vertical stretch : The "animated" mode, when you can see each little adjustment, is great : fun to watch work. it was :) ..and subsequently got turned off after the first couple, however my excited demos to my poor long suffering wife didn't invoke the 'wow' I was expecting so it got turned back on again ;) this is certainly a high end photo manipulation tool with a lot of scope for some seriously creative manipulation. k
