Photoshop tutorials----playing with colors(blog #2)

After reviewing several tutorials, I combined several skill that can help a lot to make some dramastic effects on photos. Many of them are playing with the mask layers and color balance.
Here are some screenshots:

This is the original picture, I want to add more dramatic effect to make it look more sad. So I used the Image>Adjustment>curves to make it darker.

 Now that I used the Blur tool to stress the main theme by making contrast on clearness. I pressed Q and used the Brush tool to draw the area I want to stress, and pressed Q again. Now the area marked are selected, I went to the Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur (Skill from Make Up:http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/3)

Then I used skill from Selective negative with mask layer and did some effects playing with the color. This one is combining the selective negative using the mask layer(http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/162271/how-to-do-a-selective-negative-or-color-image-using-a-mask-layer) and the re-lighting subject(http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/163028/lighting) basicly using the merge of layers and Blur tool. It's that easy out of imagination!

Now the audience for sure can feel some "soul" of theme from the dramatic effect of the picture without the word statement. I think it's pretty nice and useful.