This week my steps come later as last time most entries were just people following my steps, instead I want to see what you can do, I will post what I did after some responses start coming in.
resize down to 800 wide and save as jpg , took about 9 minutes maybe a little less, careful to retouch benieath the sunglasses, Remember this is not a race I do most of these things a lot so its almost second nature by now, if it takes you longer even a lot longer its normal, once you do it enough it gets faster and faster. .
Stephen Eastwood
open the file name layer original duplicate layer, duplicate layer again apply curve (adjustment layer) aply custom curve "warmer" (also on my website) adjust opacity until color is right merge down so there is one new layer and original layer copy new layer make new empty layer use clone tool set at 26% and clone over all skin so that it is over soft large soft edge brush semi following the shadow lines lower opacity of this layer to blend with new layer for skin texture filter add noise, monocromatic gausian adjust percent until it looks right (about 2-3%) merge down left with new layer and original use healing brush around lines under eyes, careful to not bring in too much color from glasses, use clone tool to help on difficult areas set to about 25% opacity, smaller soft edge brush. click new layer on and off and look for final details, once satisfied, make a duplicate layer change to luminosity, apply unsharp mask slightly higher then norm lower opacity to blend use a layer mask to erase skin sharpening, merge layers down view images once again to amaze oneself, resize down to 800 wide and save as jpg Hopefully I did not leave much out, this is pretty much it, took about 9 minutes maybe a little less, but then I do most of these things a lot so its almost second nature by now. Stephen Eastwood http://www.nyphotographics.com