Continued...
I also decided to try the method offered in Martin Evening’s “Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers” manual (pp. 614-615).
The images below shows the steps I followed for this exercise.
Picture 7: Step 1: Unsharp Mask Settings: A 320, R 0.6. T 4
Picture 8: Step 2: Applying Fade Unsharp Mask function
Picture 9: Step 3: Applying the High Pass Filter
Picture 10: The final image