Photoshop realistic pic tutorial by myself

I'm sure most people want to learn photoshop the easy way without much hassle and such right? Well, today I will be teaching you on how to change a dull looking photo into a more realistic the easy way using only photoshop cs4. This time the tutorial will be quite interesting as this will be the first time I'm making a video with me giving out the instructions on how to do it. Don't bother about my weird voice/accent but with less than 3 minutes, I can guarantee you will get to learn something new today get to share it with others. So, here's an example of the original picture that I've got randomly from the internet, so here are the video tutorial and some of the samples...

Video tutorial by myself:



Artwork of the pictures:

A dull looking miserable photo of One Piece...
Once you have learn/watch the tutorial, you will get to see something like this! A brand new shiny one

Not included in the tutorial:

If you are good at it, you can even do something more complete like this
If you just want to show off, here's the best version I've done, with no watermark and logo at the side. What do you think?

Please do excuse some of the mistakes I said while making the video as I did it in one shot. I was more into teaching people new things than to care about my language mistakes. Rate and comment please :D

I'm testing out some noob graphic/web coding effect. Do feel free to help me test out... (might take a while for slow internet XD)



Do you see the change when you place the cursor on the image? The second version is made purely by me :D