This is my wife’s old school friend and her husband.  My wife and I have been asked to shoot a wedding next year and so this photoshopping was inspired by that.  I softened skin (maybe a little too much?), brightened eyes and teeth and black and whited the photo, topping it off with a slight brown/bronzish tint. Also, I did not sharpen with my normal process, but tried something a little different.  Please note this picture does not do either before or after justice.  Click for larger version of  after picture.

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• Duplicate background layer and run high-pass filter with a radius of 10 pixels.  Set new layer to hard light blend mode and drop the opacity down to somewhere around 20% or 30%. I just eyeballed it.
• Ran the Coffeeshop powder room action to soften the woman’s skin, define man/woman’s eyes, whiten man/woman’s teeth (slight).
• Made a copy of soften skin layer, blacked the mask, and then softened man’s skin.  I then dropped opacity of the new layer quite a bit.  I only wanted a slight softening on his skin.
• Used Black and White adjustment layer.  I was going to use the tint feature, but I wasn’t getting what I wanted, so instead I…. 
• Created a new layer.  Filled it with #94715c and then dropped opacity to 34%.  I wanted only a slight tint.
• Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer with eyeballs selected to brighten them slightly

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