This tut was used in Kimi's Homework Week #27 at PET. It was done using PSE5 but will work in other versions and in CS. Anita (Westiemom) used it in her image Eyes of Wonder.
Porcelain Effect
-Open your image and Ctrl J to duplicate the layer.
-On the duplicate layer, Ctrl U to bring up the Hue/Saturation box and slide the Saturation slider to -100, click OK
-Go to Enhance> Adjust Lighting> Increase Contrast to +10, click OK
-Create an Adjustment Layer> Levels> Channel set to RGB> Input Levels at 0,1.50,230> Output Levels at 0,255, click OK
-Merge the mask layer and desaturated layer
-Enhance > Unsharp Mask> Amount at 100%> Radius at 0.8 px, Threshold at 1 level, click Ok
-Use the Dodge tool and dodge the midtones and shadows at 30% exposure if needed (avoiding the eyes, mouth and nostrils. Also change the range of the exposure for midtones and shadows at the top of the screen.)
An additional step would be to add a feathered selection around your image to make it dreamy. To do this simply make a selection and set to Feather. The larger your feather size the more area of the photo the feathering will cover.
A variation of this tut would be to slightly reduce the opacity to let some of the color show.
All above settings can be adjusted to your taste.
Here are the images I used in Kimi's homework, my son and Kimi's daughter (hope you don't mind Kimi)
Porcelain Effect
-Open your image and Ctrl J to duplicate the layer.
-On the duplicate layer, Ctrl U to bring up the Hue/Saturation box and slide the Saturation slider to -100, click OK
-Go to Enhance> Adjust Lighting> Increase Contrast to +10, click OK
-Create an Adjustment Layer> Levels> Channel set to RGB> Input Levels at 0,1.50,230> Output Levels at 0,255, click OK
-Merge the mask layer and desaturated layer
-Enhance > Unsharp Mask> Amount at 100%> Radius at 0.8 px, Threshold at 1 level, click Ok
-Use the Dodge tool and dodge the midtones and shadows at 30% exposure if needed (avoiding the eyes, mouth and nostrils. Also change the range of the exposure for midtones and shadows at the top of the screen.)
An additional step would be to add a feathered selection around your image to make it dreamy. To do this simply make a selection and set to Feather. The larger your feather size the more area of the photo the feathering will cover.
A variation of this tut would be to slightly reduce the opacity to let some of the color show.
All above settings can be adjusted to your taste.
Here are the images I used in Kimi's homework, my son and Kimi's daughter (hope you don't mind Kimi)