To nivas37: Thanks Nivas......

[sarika]

Hi Nivas,

I am very glad that u took this initiative and showed me a better way to look at this pic. Nice learning for me....
Can u tell me in a bit detail how u have enhanced the features.......have u sharpened them...or used curves in photoshop to show contrast.....

Regards,
Sarika

[nivas37]

Hi Sarika,
When i looked at the image more closely, i saw that there were actually alot of features on the man's face (wrinkle lines, eyebrows, teeth)... since most of these were light, i thought that the image would be more powerful if these features are exposed.
Hence, I first smoothed the image, and then reapplied Light Sharpening. This brought out the man's features better.
Then I reduced the brightness a bit to help the contrast.
After that I cropped the image as required.
Hope this helps.
Rgds / Nivas

[sarika]

Hi again,

Can u tell me the software u worked on my pic?

Thanks,
Sarika

[nivas37]

Arcsoft PhotoStudio 5.5 for Canon...