My First Try At Editing A Photo

So I have just tried my hand at editing a photo that I took of me on Sunday. I had never given much thought into editing my photos as I thought that the only Photo Editing software out there was PhotoShop. There are many free downloadable ones from just the first page on Google. So I am going to put the original up and the edited one up. I am going to start to edit more of my  photo's before I upload them here. I am going to teach myself how to edit photos through trail and error, so bear with me. I will put up some more landscape Photos this evening but for now, I thought that I would show you my first ever attempt at editing a photo.

The Original 

 The Edited

I think that although I look as If I have been 'tangoed' in the edited one, I think that the colour's of the picture stand out a lot more and the lighting looks a little better, I have three lights in my bedroom as the lights are in odd places, one on my bedside table, one on my desk (that's why there is lens flair) and my actual ceiling light which is over the other side of my bedroom from this picture. I also think that the edited one shows the curls of my hair better because of the dark and light aspects of it. I will practice a lot more at editing and hopefully I will improve. Later tonight I will add some more of the pictures that I have taken out walking, I just really wanted to show you my first attempt at editing.