Alright the steps i made where.
I put a 100x soft brush white behind him and set it to lighten. but i did it on the edge of the brush to give it a light effect then erased around his head and arm to give it the depth.
then i use 100x black soft brush and went around the focal n set the layer to 40ish % but left some of the details around the focal
then i added a Orange / Purple gradient to lighten went to 48%
then added a Purple / Green / Orangeish yellow gradient to soft light at 33% to give it some character.
then made a new layer and apply image then sharpened and opacity set to 30% this is in CS3 extended
Heres this if you wanna use it as a sig. its on the house
REMEMBER dont be afraid to make multiple layers to test different things and erase and add where necessary. Not everything has to be on 1 layer.
http://i.imgur.com/ga8bl9x.jpg
thanks man looks like i was just missing a few small steps yeah i got like 20 layers on that sig lol
didnt do exactly what you did tried a different approach and came up with similar effects