A start would be removing the text until you get better. I don't think I should give more advice since it'll be wrong at this time of the day. :]
I used the same tut you used. If you were following what the tut said, you should've really gotten a better render. D: This render's pretty dark and doesn't really fit what the tutorial was about. Despite the render and colors, this is a great 3rd sig! The smudging was very good. Even better than my attempt. Good luck!
thanks i will leave the text out in the future. its not totaly true to the tut, i kinda took out some of the bits as i dont know how to use many of the tools. (noob) i will redo tut and find a brighter render. (kinda like the dark though) thanks for the commments
Try Blending in the render more. The blurriness of the background kind of takes away from the depth. Some things to work on are background detail, depth, and blending, you are going in the right direction though. Keep it up.