Out of camera picture resized for the blog.
Picture processed with Photoshop - brighten, sharpened, contrast.
The trick to using Photoshop or any other type of photo processing program is simply starting with a good photo. I don't mean good looking photo, but good in terms of lighting, focus, color balance etc. A great smile doesn't hurt either. This way, all you have to do is tweak it a little bit. The key is a little bit, you definitely don't want to go overboard and make it look unnatural and weird (unless that's the style you're going for). If you do it right, it's like those Claritin D commercials where the cloudy film is lifted off revealing a vibrant picture. It's actually pretty fun, but you have to have a good photo to begin with. If you want to do it the simple way, use Photoshop Lightroom with the presets and just turn it down a little bit. Here's a picture of Sienna and you can see the differences are subtle, which means that the picture was taken with proper exposure.
A more dramatic example can be found HERE (which is what I have as my desktop background, that's how much I like it).
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