After shooting with my 350D for the last two years I am beginning to actually take a look at the tools I have available and fiddle around to see what I can do to enhance or improve my images. This is my first attempt at leveraging Ufraw for strictly white balance and temperature adjustment and Gimp for a tone mapping and color adjustments. For this image I created three layers:

Top = Multiply, 30% Transparency
Middle = Divide, Desaturate-Average, Invert, 50% Transparency
Bottom = Original image

This image is a little noisy because I saved it down for the web to save a couple of pennies with hosting, you can see the original on Flickr (only if we are contacts, I’m still hiding from Orkut).