This is more like it. Whatever you did when you took this picture, please keep doing it, and stop with the black oval borders- I've voted on several of your pictures today and this is the first one I've been able to see properly. Have a look in the tutorials section- there are a lot of very good articles on both photography and post-processing. I hope this isn't too harsh- I suspect you're a good painter, you just have to let us see that. Oh, and I like the house. Now where's Asterix? :)