Well, heh! It's a very cool shot and sure it's salvageable! Now, unless this is the first and only time you will ever need a photo "Photoshopped", I'd say you owe it to yourself to take some time to learn to work with the software you have. CS3 is capable of doing all this and more, but yes you need to learn! There are great learning resources available -- Lynda.com has an excellent free trial and a "starting set", Adobe has online resources, and there are excellent authors (check out Scott Kelby and Martin Evening for starters) -- they each author a series that is updated for each version, and the CS3 versions are still available on Amazon.com.
Sure, you can pay a professional Photoshop expert each time you need a little something done -- there are people here in fact who do this professionally, and it is proper to offer someone fair pay for their work, really, but it can be rewarding (as well as cost-saving) to learn at least enough to get some good use of the tools you have!
I'm not a pro or expert with Photoshop, by the way, I'm just another amateur shooter who at some point wanted to get as much out of my images as I could, and eventually it was time to bite the bullet with Photoshop. Since then, Lightroom appeared and that app has become my "workflow central" and my attentions have drifted from the "fancy stuff" of Photoshop (like we see here)...but I did put in the time to learn how to do the basics of what Photoshop can do and I'm glad of it!!
Have fun!
