Changing Moods in Photos

For my first image I wanted to change the mood of my photo to be very dark and melancholy . I started by duplicating the layer twice and creating one new layer, on the first one I set the layer blending mode to multiply so that the image would become darker. Then on the middle layer I set the blending mode to overlay and lowered the opacity, then I made the top layer hidden and used the option merge visible layers. Finally I filled the top layer with a medium brown color and set the blend mode to color, I lowered the opacity so that it only produced a dirty effect on the photo.

To contrast the initial image I made this one very bright and the colors bold. I used the Hue/Saturation palette to increase the saturation of the colors, but first I made a duplicated layer and use this on, then set the blending mode to color. This meant that i would not loose quality of the the image. Next I duplicated the layer and set the mode to screen which made the image brighter, I lowered the opacity so that the main features were still visible clearly. Finally I merged the layers and duplicated again, but this time set the blending mode to soft light. I also lowered the opacity in this layer.