Billions of pictures go unprinted or cause consumer dissatisfaction due to their poor image quality and the inability of users to make simple enhancements that would render them satisfactory. This conclusion is true for applications such as digital photography, where high quality prints are desirable, and for digital documents where it would often be convenient to carry out in situ image processing of embedded pictures. By combining both traditional and non-traditional imaging tools, a simple yet highly effective overall image-enhancement methodology has been developed that is capable of placement everywhere a user interacts with a digital image, including a desk-top printing menu. The authors will describe the basic imaging principles used in the development of this practical methodology, from initial concept through to end-solution, and a demonstration will be given of typical user operation.