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Not bad at all! Now if only "tweak" and "mess" colud be quantified...
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Bah! Bleh!
I'm a big fan of tearing photos apart in various ways. One of my favorite ways is Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity.
If you have PC/Win, I have some simple plug-ins to help with this:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9839
Or I can show how to use stock tools to do those things.
Hue
Extract Hue to colour (probably not necessary for this photo, but I generally do it anyways).
My general rule for this is fleshtones are red/orange and maybe a hint of yellow.
That is my starting point.
Far too much yellow and needs to be shifted a bit more towards red.
Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation
and use Hue to around -7 or so.
Doesn't take much.
Saturation
Extract the saturation to the Red channel in Channels palette.
Green and Blue channels are black.
Clip a Curves adjustment layer, use drop-down to go to Red channel, and tweak away.
My general rule for this kind of photo is that saturation should be under 50%.
That is my starting point.
For the given photo, I think sat is way to high and tweak it down with Curves in the Red channel.
Then I tweaked the low sats a little more.
Luminosity
Extract the luminosity, clip a Curves adjustment layer, and tweak away.
Ah...
---Curves ad-layer to tweak Lum, clipping group
-Extracted Luminosity set to Luminosity blending mode
---Curves ad-layer with tweaks in Red channel, clipping group
-Extracted Saturation in Red channel set to Saturation blending mode
-Hue/Sat ad-layer with Hue = -7
-Original photo
That's my general flow and it works very well for me for a wide range of 'bad' photos.