Nikon P500 Picture Quality

[Blackspeare]

Hi...I've been using a P500 for close to a year and I really like the camera, but could they produce a more complicated camera. I had to buy a book to explain the manual! For the price, it takes decent to very good pics. I tend to use the camera mostly in the program or manual setting and I prefer totally sharp photos with deep color and I keep experimenting with the settings, but I'm still not completely satisfied. What would be the best settings to assure best depth of field with deep color resolution? Thanks for any help.