Lilybelles: What is washing your image out is the diffuse colour set to White, with a value of 1. Try changing it to black (and/or value 0) and see if that helps:-) Also, remove the specular value (set it to black, too.) These nodes (and the ambient channel) are added to the colours that are produced by reflections. So they can be used to tint/bias/subtly alter reflections, but must always be used in very low amounts for very shiny materials, otherwise they overpower the reflections.. Cheers, Diolma