Suzi, earlier this year I watched a wonderful video tutorial on workflow. This was from the NoBS website.
The very first thing this man did with all, or most all images was what he called "De Fog"
The top is what I downloaded and below is what happens if you apply Unsharp Mask with settings of 20-60-0 I find myself doing this with just about every image I work with. Now, this of course adds sharpening which you don't want so I then applied the Neat Image filter to remove noise as Michel explained...
Now you are ready to crop, dodge, burn, vignette, frame, etc ... all of the composition stuff
This is really a great, expressive image.
Rusty
The very first thing this man did with all, or most all images was what he called "De Fog"
The top is what I downloaded and below is what happens if you apply Unsharp Mask with settings of 20-60-0 I find myself doing this with just about every image I work with. Now, this of course adds sharpening which you don't want so I then applied the Neat Image filter to remove noise as Michel explained...
Now you are ready to crop, dodge, burn, vignette, frame, etc ... all of the composition stuff
This is really a great, expressive image.
Rusty