REQUEST: Good ideas to make my band photo look PRO

Hi! I´m looking for help/instructions to make my band photo look more pro/cool. Also it has some mistakes i would like to vanish:
1. The sealing should be turned from white to black and still look as natural as possible. Does this mean the singer´s hair will vanish?
2. The pockets I would like to be black, like this:
3. One version which has the first two and all the basic gizmos adjusted, contrast, black&white points etc.
4. Additional with colouring/effects, something like one in below or else you think may be suitable for this kind of photo.
IN CASE someone decides to do these by himself (I´m sure it will take max 10min. for you true gurus ;), links for original pics are below. The divine individual who mails me examples will have my infinite respect! [email protected]
JPG:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NAFJVDRS
RAW/CR2:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J2BFQB3J

Here is a very quick (Mask with the mouse, as Wacom was not hooked up) treatment with the low-rez version.
In this case, there was a bit of distortion with the Free Transform to create a bit of perspective. I would definitely use a different background image, but did not have the big externals hooked up to the laptop, so just grabbed one, that contrasted a bit, and was not too busy. I could see using something like a graffitti-covered brick wall, thrown out of focus a bit, with a Blur. I have dozens of those, but not resident on the laptop. I also added an Outer Glow here, but something like Mystical Lighting (an optional plug-in), could prove useful. For that background, you can get as weird, as you wish.
One big consideration would be the feeling that you want to create, and that would probably be based on the music and its style. Say you do Mephis jazz, think about a brick wall from Beale St., maybe with a little bit of a neon sign, etc. So very many possibilities there.
I did not adjust the pockets here, especially with the low-rez image, but it would be a series of easy Masks, and probably a Hue Saturation Adjustment Layer.
Does this give you any ideas?
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - obviously, with your higher-rez image, the Masking would be so very much better. This was just for an example, was done in about 3 mins.and only to give you some things to think about. It took 10x as long to type the above, as the work that I did.

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