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His gf is very talented designer and did take this shot with a point and shoot.

Photography is not here thing. But still she loves him and she has eyes.

I do not even think of posting my first tries on this image.
Perhaps you have idea's on this one.

Highlights,

Please give us some goals you would like to have for the image. 

Personally I can see that it needs a pass with smart sharpen, it needs a skin correction which could be done in Curvemeister with a Skin Mask and a mid-tone skin pin, The foreground road is completely blown out with no details; it will need to be cloned back into the image.  the overall color balance needs a bit of a tweak...

What things are you looking to improve and then we'll have a bash at it...

Greg

Greg,

thnx ,  i ll work with your tips. ok?

Regards,

Martijn

Headlights,

Here is my version of the image...

In shot 1: I show the image with the road cloned into a separate layer.  I copied a section of the road and pasted it into a new layer.  I used the "Skew" command to stretch the copied area out over the blown area and then set the layer opacity to 65%.  I then used a eraser tool with a soft brush to erase out the areas of the copied layer that covered the green spots near the middle.

In Shot 2: I flattened the layers and opened the image in Curvemeister to do a RGB correction using the highlights in the trees I found a spot that I thought should be white and corrected the highlights to that spot.  I picked a mid-tone spot and corrected in RGB to make that neutral.  I picked a spot in the hairline to check the shadows and found the hair to be blue.  I corrected the hairline spot to be in the skin tone range but very dark so that the man does not have blue hair. 

In Shot 3: I applied smart sharpen as shown with the settings you see in the screen shot. 

Shot 4 is where I left the image for now.

Greg