First I opened this photo in ACR. I bumped up the exposure and then used recovery to bring down some of the blown out areas on the right side of his face.

Then I opened it in Photoshop CS3. I first did a defog and then started working on the color correction. I use the CMYK method of skin tone correcting. I took a great class from Jodi at MCP Actions called Color Fixing. If you want to learn about how to color correct skin, you should definitely take her class!

Then I did a hue saturation layer to bring down some of the reds. I inverted the mask and just painted on the parts where I wanted to erase the redness.

Then I used MCP actions eye doctor to sharpen the eyes a little.

I cropped it and here is what my final results look like:

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