Fixing an ordinairy photograph Part 2

    It has been more than a week since I published this post with a promise to finish it with a follow up.  Due to some my newness to the world of blogging and an encounter with a 72 foot blue whale carcass (more on that soon) I was unavoidably detained.    To begin with there was one thing I liked about my photo that was the depth of field of the fly on the granite rock.  It made the fly pop out of the picture a bit.  I also liked the texture of the granite itself.  To keep the rock and improve the damsel fly I had to separate them by creating a duplicate background layer in Photo-shop 9

Next I highlighted the background in the layer dialog box and knocked out the "eye" to the left of the background copy layer so that I could only see and work on the background.

I then went to Image/adjustments/brightness - contrast and boosted the brightness +25 and the contrast +15. 

I went back to the image/adjustments to "saturation" and increased it by +50. Next I put the eye back on in the layer dialog box for the background copy and highlighted the background copy.
 Using the eraser tool I erased the lacy parts of the wing and the more colorful body parts.  Leaving the eyes and the legs alone because the contrast worked on those parts.  A little use of the the clone tool to get rid of the other insect on the dark rock face and some cropping to add interest and here is the finished product. How would any of you handled this?  I would be interested to know.