I have been playing around with this image:
A boring snapshot, with some kitchen equipment in the background. I played around in Photoshop CS2 a bit and tweaked the background a bit.
I then went and adjusted the levels, desaturated, and nudged the curves a bit for this version.
The final product is just an online profile photo. I could have saved some Photoshop work if I had set-up my studio lights and background. But The end result would be about the same amount of time.
Darrell