Alpha
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Thank you for this! :thumbup:
No problem. I might also add a couple other things.
The lips (though they're very very hard to work with at low res like this) were done with healing brush, color dodge, and color burn.
The hair was done using a golden-colored color dodge in the highlights.
I made a new layer out of the eyes and lightened with a curves adjustment layer.
In this case, I did levels at the end, compressing the highlight range slightly and moving middle gray slightly toward the shadows. You could just as easily do levels at the beginning, but I'd recommend not bringing the highlights all the way up because that gives you less room to play with dodging.
I didn't feel that any USM was necessary. The retouching itself already sharpens the image to some extent.