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Hi Mike, BTL, Raid -

Normally, I would be happy to send you my PSD file for this reconstruction, but, so that I didn't have to spend a lot of time on this little demo, I used a bunch of 3rd party commercial plugins such as NIK Color Efx Pro and probably a couple of ones from Topaz, so unless you have them, my PSD file isn't going to do you much good.

There are also a couple of good books on retouching that I'm familiar with, Eismann's and Ctien's, and I can heartily recommend them, but they just scratch the surface (pun intended).  You really need to work on lots and lots of photos to get your chops up.

That being said, probably the best way to get into this sort of work is to deal with one problem at a time, not everything at once (like in this image).  For example, Mike, if you are having problems with getting rid of the cracks in the emulsion, we can go through those steps separately.   What's the area that gives you the most problems?

Tom