I've been trying for so long playing with photoshop and what trying to figure out how to get the people in the picture like lightened up and i guess make the colors look like its i guess more stand out, i cant explain it. Same goes for the background on the first picture.
I would appreciate whoever can help me on how to figure this out.

I put the effect picture im trying to do on the left and the non edited picture on the right.

http://i40.tinypic.com/mjbx29.jpg
Sorry I dot have the original picture of the person that im trying to get the effect on at the moment.

http://i42.tinypic.com/ff1gft.jpg
here is the other with the original too.


Thanx.