This was a fun photo to play around with.

First I opened the photo in Adobe Bridge. I bumped up the exposure and decreased both the color and luminance noise. If I had a noise reduction program I would have used that too. I still think this photo needs more noise reduction than what I did.

Next I opened the photo in Photoshop CS3. I used the spot healing brush and the patch tool to clean up some of the flaws in the skin and around the nose.

I ran ProRetouch from Totally Rad actions and softened the skin a bit.

I sharpened the eyes a little bit, and I was pretty happy with how the photo looked.

Then I decided to play around with it a bit more and I ran some more actions from Totally Rad Actions.

Here is Prettyizer:

Grunge Rock:

And SX-70. This is normally not my style, but I liked how it looked on this photo.

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