Everyones a critic

I obtained this program...Photoshop. Pretty awesome and does so many things. I will never figure it all out. So I'm checking out all sorts of tutorials. One tutorial showed me how to transform this photo that I took in St. Augustine...



into this incredibly artsy piece of art...



Except for the fact that it is too dark (I still can't figure out why when I upload a transformed image, it darkens so much) this is beautiful, no?

Apparently, no. This is what Bumble had to say. "Why did you put roaches all over the wall?" sigh