On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:53:46 -0400, "Joan F \(MI\)"
wrote:

Increase the contrast. You may also have to lighten or darken the whole
picture.

Paddy's Pig wrote:
| "Wendy7" wrote in message
| ...
|
|| 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.

If you can learn a bit more compicated stuff, then you can lighten,
increase contrast in one or more areas of a jpg or raw file using
photoshop.