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How I did it...

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• I started by using 'Adjust Brightness and Contrast' to lighten the
• image, without fading it too much.
• Then smoothed it a little with 'Adjust, Add/Remove Noise, Texture Preserving Smooth'.
• Next I used the 'Change to target Brush' to add some colour to the figure.
• I used the clone tool on the worst cracks in the background, then decided to smooth out the whole background area, so I used the freehand selection too to select the background and used 'Blur More' on this area and de-selected.
• I thought the whole image needed sharpening, just a little, so used the 'Unsharp Mask'.
• The picture had a rather red tint which I wanted to make more natural, to do this I used 'Adjust Colour Balance' adding more cyan to the midtones.
• I finished by cropping the image.

Sandra (cassandrablue)