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Step 1: apply the smart sharpen filter, I prefer don't sharp it too much, just the necessary

Step2: duplicate your pic now. And from now on you have to work only on your copy layer.

Step 3: go in edit--> adjustments select brightness/contracts. Here I normally just increase the brightness till 40/45, but sometimes I also decrease or increase the contrast too, it just depends on the pics. And click on okay.

Step 4: from the same list select hue/saturation increase a little bit the saturation and also the lightness bar, once done press okay.

Step 5: now again from the same list select the option threshold and keep it to 128 level and press okay.

Step 6: go to Filters--> Blur--> Gaussian Blur and keep the radium more than 4. Something between 5 and 6 will be okay.

Step 7: change the mode of you layer copy layer from normal to soft light and marge both the pics together.

--- this is what I have done to get the first version.

Step 8: from Filters--> Blur--> select Surface Blur and keep de Radium less than 10, 7 will be okay and the Threshold around 19/20.

^^ this is the step that I have added to the first version.

P.S. you can brightened you pic even with the curves, or use both of them because with the curves you can decide which part to lightened and which not, while with the brightness effect you are lightening the whole pic, but since my pic was okay on its own I used only the brightness effect.

P.P.S. you can do other changes too like put a little bit of Vibrance effect but whatever changes you do remember to do it before putting the Threshold effect, because after that I don't think they work properly.

P.P.P.S. Maybe there are other ways to get this effect which maybe can be more easy but till now I know only this one.

NOTE: the same thing work also to darken the pics, but for that you have to work with the black and white effect.

Step 1: apply the smart sharpen filter I prefer not to sharp it too much just the necessary

Step2: duplicate it

Step 3: go in edit--> adjustments select Curves and adjust your curves in a way that the face of the leads are more visible from the rest of the pic. Once done click okay

Step 4: from the same list select black and white. Here you need to be a little careful and patience, you need to increase the colors that are lightening/brightening the faces of your leads, in my case I have increased the Red and the Yellow (yellow is one of those colors that you always need to increase) and decrease all those colors that just bright the background, in this way the attention will just go on the leads. In my case I have decreased a lot the magenta and a little bit the Green and Cyans.

Step 5: now again from the same list select the option Levels adjust them in away the face of you leads are more brighten then the rest of the pic. In my pic I have moved the middle little arrow from the right side toward the middle of the graphic, like in the pic.

Step 6: now select the option Threshold you need to increase the threshold here, you can't keep it 128, the pic will not came good with the level 128. You have to increase it in a way the that the white part is visible only on the faces of your leads and the rest it's black or almost black. My threshold level in this pic is 181.

Step 7: go to Filters--> Blur--> Gaussian Blur and keep the radium more than 4. Something between 5 and 6 will be okay.

Step 8: change the mode of you layer copy layer from normal to soft light and marge both the pics together.

Step 9: from Filters--> Blur--> select Surface Blur and keep de Radium less than 10, 7 will be okay and the Threshold around 19/20.