Thank you for your advice. I cannot blame the artist as he did it just like my picture, except my picture was clipart and the key was a drawing and the key was pencil shaded. so i wondered if shading some brown in the key would help pull the key out more. I dont mind coloring the key, he thought i may take away from the detail of the key, but would the color have to be solid? Again, thank you very much for your advice, what looks good on paper, doesn't always work in the real world!! lol