well im actually really good at photo fixing fixing the levels, making the lighting better, fixing problems , and making the skin look like a cover page for a mag , to learn it all it takes time im still not gREAT at it but i learned from a real graphic artist who works fixing photos for magazines , on the first one the skin looks to smooth but not bad the problem with it looking to smooth is that the eye takes it more of as a doll or it can tell that the photo was manipulated and on the second its pretty cool i like how you changed the back round just to match with the effect you were using which i think is a grunge render set on hmm if i remember correctly color burn, so nice job on both for first tries. 9/10