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Thank you for your reply, and I think I agree with you! Maybe I'll bribe my grandchildren to visit more often for practise :)

Many thanks for the advice Garry. Glass eyes makes a lot of sense. Probably expensive though.

Hello All, Can anyone please recommend a mannequin head suitable for practising lighting for portrait photography? Many thanks, John

Chris, I've been watching this with interest, and I really like what you're doing with your website. The theme is very nice and I'm becoming even more tempted to try Wordpress myself, but still feel I want to keep the Gallery separate, but with the same look to it.

Well, I just had to give Coppermine a try and there's one major flaw I can't find a work-around for. The albums are organised by categories and sub-categories, but you can't set group permissions on categories, only on albums. You can make an album private, but the category heading still shows...

I'd be interested in what you come up with. The only other gallery I'm aware of at the moment is Coppermine, but haven't tried it. I'll probably wait until I come unstuck with Gallery2 :)

Chris, I've just started to create my own site using Gallery2, and I think it's an excellent solution. Early days, but - www.jtkphotography.co.uk You can create private albums too, and there's also a PayPal plug-in. I'm also considering Wordpress as a front end, with a link to the Gallery...

Here's some NX2 videos - makes it look easy :) Cool new features of Capture NX2, Part I Cool new features of Capture NX2, Part II How to deal with color cast

I can thoroughly recommend Jason Odell's eBook and related videos here

Here's a PSPX2 Makeover Tutorial which includes replacing the background with a gradient. Not sure if this is what you want, but might help :)

Thanks again Garry, will check it all out.