Hi vhansen
Welcome onboard the more the merrier.
Be my guest and play around with the picture and any other picture on the forum, they have been placed here for us to dabble with and learn from.
I can see what you mean about contrast and the tan layer works well. I will add it to my family tree collection and thank you very much
What I have seen is people have the own ideas and perseption of what a black & white picture should look like coloured as they have nothing to compare it with. the questions I have started to ask myself is how was a picture stored "in a frame on display, used as a coffee mat, left in an album and never opened, etc" so each picture would tell a different story in the end from very faint which we have posted here to looking like new.
It is the person working the picture who says that is done "that works for me", I will and have asked the forum does it work, and will always get an honest answer.
Like I said earlier in this posting I have only been doing this for 3 months, but have started to approach each picture with a different line of thought and what I want from it in the end.
Am I right or wrong? am I barking up the wrong tree or just barking mad?
I will let you lot be the judge of that
Regards
Ken