Photo edition comparison and minitutorial! (Patreon)

The first edit is from last summer; the second one is from today. Learning your style and how to get it to reality is a slow task, but now I know I'm in the good way! And I love photo edition more than ever. Now I just need to know how to photograph xD

I must say the original photo was taken during a very strong light was going, and the skin looked a little blurry so it was hard hard to work with. What I did to save the photo a little, is turn up the exposition a little, down the highlights (as much as I could without it affecting negatively to the skin aspect), saturate more the green intensity while doing a mask on it with blurring so the background didn't steal the protagonism, and playing a little more with colors by illuminating a little the orange and yellow tones on my skin, and adding on the total a little blue to the shadows, and more reddish pink to the high lights, to create a more special atmosphere.

Do you find photo edition interesting? I hope my tips can help someone with their photography learning ^-^