Fix-It-Friday No. 2

Again, I had some time on my hands at work and decided to participate again in I Heart Faces', Friday Photo Fix.

Today's was a little simpler then last times. They just asked us to have fun and show of our talent in photoshop.

Here is the original

Here is what i did.

My workflow

first i cropped the images to my likeing
i decided to do a square image
i then duplicated the background layer

changed that layer blending mode from normal to screen 

added some brightness and contrast to define and darken the outlines a little with an adjustment layer

adjusted my curves in an adjustment layer, but only the blue setting to get the coloring

merged my background and duplicated layer
sharpened the layer three time with sharpen more

duplicated that layer

finally added a Gaussian Blur to the new duplicated layer on the top and bottom of the image

then erased the blur to my liking

Hope you understood my workflow

Peace