Yesterday afternoon,

I started playing with a PhotoShop Elements free Action

called "Perfect Portrait" from CoffeeShop.

Here:  CoffeeShop

An Action is a set of memorized moves.

Unfortunately, these can't be created and memorized

in Elements, only in full PhotoShop.

Fortunately, CoffeeShop and other sites have

created Actions and offer them for use in Elements.

After running this Action, lots of adjustments

can made to the many layers which were created by the Action

(10 layers in Perfect Portraits, I think)

so that you have abundant control over the final photo.

Here are three photos - as taken -

and the results after using CoffeeShop's Perfect Portrait.