Photoshop Week 1

For the first lesson on Photoshop, I decided to work on two images from thumbnails I did prior to the lesson (1, 4)

I worked with black and white, and played around with the levels

..then I worked on my first thumbnail idea, I saved it in stages to show the progress

I started playing around with colours at this point, it wasn't the outcome I was expecting....there's a lot going on in this image so I'll be working on it till get the desired effect on a later date. 

towards the end of the lesson I started using new techniques to the blend colours together...