Before and After

(Before)

(After)

I use a Canon Rebel xsi and photoshop CS5.

I used PW action slight lighten;

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PW action fresh and colorful;

adjusted the levels;

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Coffeeshop action glamour shot;

repaired his skin with a lower opacity like 30-40%(too much higher and it starts to look like it's fake or like there is make-up on);

brightened his eyes;

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cropped the picture;

used the healing brush to remove the logo on his shirt(after I cropped the pic the logo was cussing);

ran my watermark/resizing action to make it blog ready;

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posted to my blog;

you are now reading this!