Camera looks fine to me!!! I'd advise hanging out here with your new friends, and asking a bunch of questions. It is a good idea to get some sort of digital image manipulation program. The "pros" all use photoshop, but this pricey program has a lot of pre-press features that none of us will ever use. Adobe, Microsoft, Corel, Jasc... all have Windows programs in about the $60 to $100 range for photo touchup. [Anyone have other recommendations? GIMP for Linux is free...]