This is, as it came out of my Powershot (resized): And this was after some playing with Mr. Potatoshop: Not to much Postwork: cropping, a little colour-correction, working on the brightness of the darker areas via gradients, cloning out this annoying street lamp (didn't work very well .. too lazy to do more) and than adding some soft lights from a blurred version of itself :-) PS @Michelle: if you think, things like that should be discussed via IM or Mail, please feel free to say so. I'm not sure about what's use and what's misuse of this forum :)