PS to the dark character photo fine grinding and whitening

The face and skin tones will have a lot of noise when the picture of the person with insufficient light shines. Seriously affect the quality of the picture. The process needs to be processed in a step-by-step way, first dealing with a larger area, and then slowly refined facial features and hair and other details.
Original

Final effect

1, open the file to create a new layer, fill a gray: #D8D8D8, layer properties to soften the light, so that the screen brightness without losing the details.

2, Merge all layers, create a new layer fill color: #F0D7DD, layer blending mode to "soft light" to fine-tune the character skin tone.

3, after the layer press CTRL + M to adjust the curve, the parameters are set as shown below.
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• PS Image Processing
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• PS Whitening Tutorial