I zoom it up a little, not too much, use the magic wand and select the red, play with the tolerance until I get the entire area I want selected (marching ants more or less circular around the spot). Then I hold down the plus key and repeat with the other eye. Then I Select>Feather by about 2 pixels. Then I use Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation, choose the red channel in the drop down menu, adjust the sliders on the bottom to pick up all the reddish hues in the selected areas, then turn down the saturation until the red is gone. If it looks washed out, turn the lightness slider to darker. It's easy once you've done it a couple of times and amazingly precise. For large prints, you may have to paint back in the natural eye color, but for 4X6 prints, little flaws don't show. I have done it the tedious way by zooming up and painting pixels, too much trouble unless you've got a real mess.

It's good to understand your skill limitations, although its really not too complicated. Maybe your electrictian can easily do it for you or provide the necessary info so you can do it confidentally. Although grounding the system is technically required by the National Electric Code (NEC), which I think every state has adopted to some degree, I have never seen a new install that meets these requirements. Unfortunately, you would probably be "rolling the dice" again trying to get a DirecTV sub contractor to do it correctly. In the end, it is probably wiser just to make sure its done correctly yourself. Keep educating yourself and you'll save yourself a bunch of time, frustration, and money. I once heard the qoute, "Contractors make money by not doing things they are suppose too". Unfortunately, this is the case far too often as contractors are squeezed to improve efficiency.

Suero beat me to my question. Our great room only has windows on the back of the house and there is a screened porch directly on the other side of those windows. The exposure is pretty much due West so we do get a fair amount of light. Our FP wall faces North so any windows on that wall really wouldn't bring much light in anyway. The blueprint that Paint Chips edited above is a good rendering of what I might look to do. Our window wall has a bank of 3 double hung windows with fixed transoms over them and a single door also with a fixed transom above. This maximizes the available light, especially since the porch which is 12' deep beyond the back side of those windows limits what light can get to the windows in the first place. As far as the ceilings-I don't know what kind of moldings and trim you are using but an alternative to the tray ceiling might be to trim out or coffer the ceiling. We have a coffered ceiling that gives us 9 rectangular "pockets" of drywall surrounded by heavy moldings. We painted the drywalled sections of the ceiling to match the wall color and it really pops against the trim. I wish we had some recessed lighting in there but I have resisted tearing the ceiling up so far. I'll try to get a couple of pictures up from home later.

I have the opposite problem. I have had PS for over 10 years, the last update being PS 6. But when I got a new computer, DH got me Elements because it is so much cheaper then paying full price for CS3. I should never have let my updates lapse. I am completely lost with Elements. I could do so much more with PS then with this program. I feel like my hands are tied. So I will be getting CS 2 or 3 in the future. Maybe an Anniversary present. A good place to learn about it is this link below. I have been going there for years for great tips and techniques and even tutorials. They also have lots of actions you can download. Hope you have fun with CS3. Clare Here is a link that might be useful: Retouching Forum