Thank you all.

Magie, the cottage is meant to be like a Irish Cottage

I have Vue 10 xstream so it is a few years old now but does me fine.

Mike I am not sure if it is a time limited or that Eon put the Vue copyright on the finished picture with the free version but it will do fine to learn on,
Have a look at Geekatplay for tutorials and I can help as much as I can though am still learning but have used different graphics programmes for a number of years.
Though a word of warning the graphic programmes can be very intensive on your computers resources so be aware of whether you can run them or not, they may say you can but that is the bare minimum they need to run itms?