[jobe]

Hiya BigBoy

I cant remember every exact steps, but the following is as far as I can remember.
1. I used the Healing Brush and Clone tool to remove a couple of small blemishes such as the scar on her lip and a few dots and spots.
2. Then I used a skin smoothing technique for blotchy skin which I found in my searches. I know this lady didnt have blotchy skin but i find it to be a very good skin smooting technique which keeps the natural look and skin texture, but again I cant remember where I found it and cant give credit to the person who made the tutorial, but from that I created an action.
3. Then with the dodge tool at 5% opacity and a soft brush and the range set at midtones, sweep over the darker areas to lighten them slightly.
4. Using curves to adjust the contrast firstly on the rgb channel, then on the red channel but be very slight on the red channel just needs a very small S curve adjustment otherwise you'll get some funky colour casts.
5. I added a black/blur vignette, which is a personal taste not everyone likes vignetting.

And I think thats it basically, hope this helps.
Wayne