Okay, as the title suggests, this was my VERY first experience using photoshop... It isn't all that great, but I didn't think it was half bad for my first shot at it:
The original pic:
Outcome:
After that I uploaded a hand drawn background that I spent all of 10 seconds on:
Then colored it, layered the two on top of eachother, and added a sun beam:
And there you have it! My first adventure into th world of photoshop!