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I hate editing jpeg, because as soon as you start trying to recover or increase the blacks, it gets noisy.
If you shoot raw, you still have a lot of dynamic range to play with. So spots that are under and over expose can still be recover to some extents (depending on your camera, K5 and D7000 has the highest dynamic range right now). In jpeg, each pixels are fixed in their brightness (I'm sure I'm butchering this explanation). So shoot raw and don't look back. If you hate the fact that you have to process after the shoot, then get over it, cause that's the other 50% of photography. Use programs like Lightroom to post process big batch, and use Photoshops to post process individuals (unless you're pro enough to use scripts function, which you will eventually use if you're serious about learning).
I took the liberty of trying to edit your picture in PS. It was really hard because it was a jpeg and it was really low resolutions. So I hard to resort to cheesy filters.
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