Suggestions to fix bad phone pic

[tonedeaf]

Hi, I have this rough cut from a bad quality phone pic.

Need suggestions with 2 things:
1. best way to remove light area from left shoulder.
2. Best way to improve the skin

 

[Argos]

Do you have any experience on ps? because removing that sunlight on his left shoulder could be hard, about the skin you can use gaussian blur, patch tool, frequency separation depending on what you want.

 

[Nxxl]

As for the sunlight, this video might help (but just invert the steps he does) -

 

[tonedeaf]

Thanks, for your suggestions