So this first one was just a manipulation with some lighting and sharpening to the stock.
This is what the stock looked like :
7th - I sharpened by hand cause using the Filter > Sharpen > Any made Tyreals wings way to pixelated so it took forever going through those. Gave the background a little more blur for depth, then darkened with the burn tool where needed :
8th - This I played around with a few of the techniques in Marauders tutorial on an earlier post of mine (Thanks Marauder).
Always c&c is appreciated, I feel as if I have already improved dramacticlly from your comments and help. Thx