I'm new to this

[Britsdad]

Syd... thanks for the compliment, took me ages, I must have done and redone this photo a hundred times (labour of love..lol) I have been having another go with the image after the result I got from Corel by making duplicate layers and lightening one and darkening another then using history brush to bring back detail (very difficult) then I've used healing brush and clone tool the get rid of a lot of the worst artifacts still left, thn toned the colour down a bit and put on more contrast, which left the guy on the left's head and others hands and collars too bright but brough out detail everywhere else so I painted over the offending highlights with a soft brush at 8% opacity. The results are below, I think I'll not get it much better.
Your comments please.....not too harsh though.
John