Photo retouch

i'll be using this image to demonstrate retouching a photo.

STEP 1: Rotating the image:

Select the crop tool (shortcut 'C') and drag a transformation and is align it to the required part of the image.

Pressing enter,confirms the selection and rotates the image.

Create a duplicate layer of the background layer (Ctrl+J) and name it 'Image'.

STEP 2: Adjusting the colour and exposure

The image has a high amount of red in it.With the image layer selected go to Image>Adjustments>Curves

In the Curves Settings box go to channel select Red.

Adjust your red channel settings to bring down
the amount of red in the image.

the image now looks like this:

STEP 3: Using the clone stamp and spot healing tool.

There are some white spots on the ground that can be removed using the spot healing brush tool

white spots on the ground

By selecting the spot healing brush tool of a small size go over the white spots and click once to heal the areas.

Now we'll clear up parts of the wall by using the clone stamp tool.

Alt+click on a clear part of the wall and then click on parts you want to retouch and drag over them.

NOTE: you may have to change your sample area. 

the image looks like this now:

STEP 4:Changing the colour of the girls hat and shirt.

Using the pen tool,draw a path around the girls hat.

Right click on the path using the pen tool and click on make selection.

right click to make the path a selection

Enter your required settings

the selection is now made

Go to Image>Adjustments>Replace colour.

The eye dropper with a plus sign adds sampled colours to the affected regions

 i used the following settings:

Now using the quick selection tool make a selection of the girls 

shirt.

holding 'alt' enables you to delete parts of a current selection

 Go to Image>Adjustments>Black and white

click the tint check box and add a tint to the shirt.

STEP 5: Saturating the wall

Using the the Sponge tool with it's mode set to Saturate and flow to 50%

gently saturate parts of the wall by clicking over the wall.

STEP 6:Final touches

Duplicate the Image layer and name it 'Top' add a gaussian blur to that layer(Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur) with settings  of 1.7 pixels.

Change the layer's blending mode  to "soft light".

Now add an Unsharpen filter by going to Filter>Sharpen>Unsharpen Mask and use the following settings:

The unsharpen mask sharpens the image again.

BEFORE

AFTER