I made a circle fill -put a layer mask on it and used a circular gradient to make a glowing circle with whitish center. With that selected I put a curves adjustment layer above it and it looks nice. There are masks on each layer and I cannot get these layers to merge. I've tried everything discarding masks unlinking masks,and everytime I try to merge I lose adjustment layers effect. I must be missing something but I have never had this problem before. }P }P Ferlin