Thanks ST and Peto,
St, only to happy to receive some critique.
Peto, the main parts of the pp would be curves and and contrast mask, but in case anyone is interested here is a quick run through.........this will be rough
convert to b&w using channel mixer plus play with the tones using hue and saturation
see mitch's tutorial (thanks mitch) note did not use the channel mixer settings in the tutorial. I checked the channel's (R B G) in the channel's patette to work out how much red green blue to use for the mixer.(thanks Irma)
anyway this is the part that might be of interest
"contrast mask"
Copy the background (new layer) note flatten image first or copy layers to the new layer
Then image adjustments.......invert
Next set the blend to overlay
Then filter, blur, gaussian blur.....make sure preview is ticked now add the blur, this picture was around 90. Watch your pic as you add the blur you will need to add quite a lot.
Now you can change opacity of the layer to your taste.
After that I made another adjustment layer with curves to try and get some more tone range out
oh and there was also a tint for the sepia
I hope you can follow that