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Muneer…  Yes, it is sharper, but the tone has been lost.
I’ve worked the first image in Lightroom and will post it if you wish.

Thanks, Muneer.  I’ve put the wide black border around it to emphasize the contrast.
I really love Lightroom.  There is so much you can do with it.

Muneer… Ok, I went back and did it again and made notes as I went along.

In the basic panel… Bring the highlights slider to -100 and the shadows slider to +100

Find the white and black points by holding the Alt key and moving the white and black sliders
left and right until the image just begins to appear.

Reduce Exposure to -2 and Increase Clarity to +45

In the Tone Curve panel .. Change Linear to Medium Contrast

In Effects – Post-Crop Vignetting.. Change amount to -10

In Lr5 use the Radial Filter Brush and Exposure Slider to the right to highlight
the keys with the Invert Mask box checked.

Click done and with the Invert Mask box unchecked darken the surrounding area 
using the Radial Filter Brush and the Exposure Slider to the left.

These last two steps can be done with the Adjustment Brush Tool and the Exposure slider 
if you do not have version 5 of Lightroom. It will take numerous uses of the brush.

Finally, I used PSE10 to widen the black border.  You know how to do this.

I hope I didn’t miss anything.. I don’t think I did.