Next step: Create a copy of our initial layer (the photo itself) and go to the filter menu. The reason, I'm using the Film gain filter as that it manages to set some highlights just the way I want it. OF course this gain is not what I really want to see, but we deal with that later.

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I actually wan to use another one. Cutout filter does a great job to split the tones of the image. So here we go then.

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To hide the filter effects that we did I want to apply Radial Blur - Zoom filter.

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Change
  
the blending mode o the layer to Multiply.

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I really like the tones now.

Give a little more Blue with soft brush.

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Final Adjustments:

Adjust that color balance

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A little bit of black near the chin area and we are done with this one. In the final variant I will paste some text there but this is more like for the design thing.

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So I hope you've learned something ..........and practice a lot.



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