CS5 Photoshop Editing Tutorial: How to brighten dark image remove harsh shadows model out background

This edits challenge rating is: Hard This edit is of my image known as The Blue Maiden it can be found in my Deviantart gallery: I edit in Adobe Photoshop CS5, there are tool equivalents for most of the things I use in other softwares such as GIMP. In case you missed them, here are some of the main tool paths I used in this tutorial: Image Adjustments Levels Image Adjustments Curves Image Adjustments Selective Color I