Photoshop wk-8 Color & Light Adjustments

So the above picture is the picture I chose for my second picture. This is actually a very old picture of me with a musician of a band that I really like. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to have met a person that I look up to. I have met many people I thought I would never meet but I was proved otherwise and I'm thankful for that. His name is Jason (Jay) James and he is very nice and wicked funny.

This is my PS version of the same picture. I had to modify this thing A LOT to make it look like this. I played around with a bunch of the tools to see what it would do. I know we are only on color and stuff but I couldn't help myself. This program is getting to be so much fun now that I'm getting the hang of it. I added exposure, brightness and contrast, levels, then more brightness and contrast, and then hue/saturation, and vibrance and then more exposure. So there was a few different things I did to this photo to make it look like this. I also had to resize the picture quite a bit. It was at about 150 px's and then I changed it to 400 I believe. I was trying to make the picture a little bit bigger but after doing that I noticed that it made the photo blurry. I didn't know what to do from there.... Looks ok though.

Photo # 1 for the assignment.....
This is my photoshop version of the same picture. (as seen below) I changed the contrast and brightness. I messed around with the colors big time. I kept tweaking with the tools and trying to learn what each of them do while figuring out how to get this photo blue without his skin deep red or orange. It took me a bit to get it but I think it came out really good in the end. For the most part this is what I was going for. I also messed with the hue and saturation. That did the finishing touch. Just what I intened to do.

This is my original picture that I took with the lights from the spot light on the stage without using flash or anything. I did zoom in quite a bit when taking the photo. This is a picture of my favorite singer in the world. His name is Phil and he is good!