My two cents worth: You all have good cameras; so take a pic & let it be!
"Paddy's Pig" wrote in message
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"Wendy7" wrote in message
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I need to know how you do this, lighten the subject & darken the
background.

I don't use Irfan View so I don't know how to do it with that software but
I assume it can be done, but I don't know.

My recollections of a couple of earlier versions of Irfan View that I
tried were that they allowed me to lighten the whole picture or darken the
whole picture but I don't recall seeing a way to lighten or darken
specific areas only.

Ah but what do I know? Maybe it was there and I just didn't see it.
--
Pat Durkin