They aren't washed out, maybe a little bright, but very clear. I only looked at a few, you do very nice work. Maybe try a different color instead of white for your backgrounds, I went to Lowe's and bought a few tiles in different colors, stone textures. If you ask you can get them free if they're broken or chipped on the edges. I'm still kinda new myself, one sale so far, but things will get better (crossing my fingers, legs, toes, hairs). As far as promoting, publicity, try twitter, Facebook, things like that. And again, I'm not getting sales and I do all that too. Good Luck!