Photography - Photoshop!?

Question:I love taking pictures, and I think I'm not a really bad photographer!
But I want know take another "step" and begin to use photoshop on the pictures. I saw some of a young portugues photographer and I loved it!
Here: http://emanueloliveira.blogspot.com/2007...
Here we can see the beginning photo and after some retouches! Had he done it with Photoshop? If yes, how can I do it. Any ideas?
To be honest, I'm really new at this stuff like photoshop, and I want learn more and more. If you know some sites it would be nice too.
More pictures of the young photographer is here:
http://emanueloliveira.blogspot.com/2007...
I love his pictures!

So, any help would be nice!!!! Thanks in advance!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I love taking pictures, and I think I'm not a really bad photographer!
But I want know take another "step" and begin to use photoshop on the pictures. I saw some of a young portugues photographer and I loved it!
Here: http://emanueloliveira.blogspot.com/2007...
Here we can see the beginning photo and after some retouches! Had he done it with Photoshop? If yes, how can I do it. Any ideas?
To be honest, I'm really new at this stuff like photoshop, and I want learn more and more. If you know some sites it would be nice too.
More pictures of the young photographer is here:
http://emanueloliveira.blogspot.com/2007...
I love his pictures!

So, any help would be nice!!!! Thanks in advance!

I use Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. This is a brilliant software! Those websites you reccomended from that photographer, he is very good you have good taste. ;) Can't really explain what you use to do the before and after touches but yes you do use photoshop! with the program i use its all pretty basic you just have to have a lot of patience lol! anyway, good luck :)

They played around with the Brightness and Contrast.

Jonathan :)

Try using GIMP:

http://www.gimp.org/

It's the open source "Photoshop."

And google: "GIMP Tutorials" That should give you a wealth of info.