glReadPixels and glDrawPixels with GL_LUMINANCE

Hello,

I am trying to manipulate the luminance at a pixels given location, but I cannot understand a couple of things. How come the target area tends to be blue?

How can I remove the outline of the area being rendered upon?

bool Render()
	{
		GLdouble x = myPosition.left;
		GLdouble y = myPosition.top;
		GLdouble z = 1;

		//window coordinents
		GLdouble wx = 0;
		GLdouble wy = 0;
		GLdouble wz = 0;

		GLdouble Model[16];
		GLdouble Projection[16];
		GLint    View[4];

		glGetDoublev (GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX,  Model);
		glGetDoublev (GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, Projection);
		glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT,          View);

		//calculate the screen space components
		if(gluProject(x, y, z, Model, Projection, View, &wx, &wy, &wz) != GL_TRUE)
			return false;

		//check if the window positons are outside the window coordinates
		if(wx < 0 || wx >= 800)
			return false;
		else if(wy < 0 || wy >= 600)
			return false;

		//obtain the pixels at the location
		
		GLint px = (GLint)x;
		GLint py = (GLint)y;

		GLsizei width  = (GLsizei)myPosition.width;
		GLsizei height = (GLsizei)myPosition.height;

		unsigned char* Pixel = new unsigned char[(width)*(height)];

		glReadPixels(x, y, width, height, GL_LUMINANCE, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, Pixel);

		//add the lightmap values to the current pixels

		int bufpos = 0;
		float lmv = 0;

		int R = 0, G = 0, B = 0;
		for(int y = 0; y < height; y++)
		{
			for(int x = 0; x < width; x++)
			{
				bufpos = (width*y) + x;
				lmv = LightMap->Map[y][x];

				//if(lmv > 0.0666667)
					Pixel[bufpos] *= lmv;
			}
		}
		//move the raster pointer
		glRasterPos2d(wx, wy);

		//copy the memory
		glDrawPixels(width, height, GL_LUMINANCE, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, Pixel);

		delete[] Pixel;		

		//retrun true lol
		return true;
	};

This looks okay, but there is a noticeable border, and the color is blue.

this one just sucks.

any help is appreciated.