Hi Simps -
First, no need to apologize for your typos any more than me apologizing for not knowing Swedish even though my wife is Swedish and we've visited your country a couple of times.
Now, on to the main topic. See if this is close enough ...
My approach on all such "reproduce this look" requests is to iteratively close in on the "target". I start by adjusting for the most obvious difference between the current state of the image and the goal. This might be brightness, contrast, local contrast, distribution of light in the scene, sharpness, whatever. Once I get the first source of differences adjusted appropriately, I move on to identifying and minimizing the next biggest difference, and so on. As I progress, occasionally, I'll realize that I have applied too much of some effect earlier in the iterative process, so I go back and adjust it, or I'll simply compensate for it by adding another adjustment to the stack.
The result of this is that I usually can come pretty close to the desired look, but there is absolutely no guarantee that the method I came up with is even close to the method used by the original artist. For example, my method almost always uses more adjustments than the original artist used. In the extreme case, the original artist may have used some commercial plugin that achieved the desired effect with just one button push.
That being said, doing exercises like this trains your eye to recognize the most important differences and forces you to learn the capabilities of all the tools at your disposal, a skill essential for success with Photoshop.
Finally, so that you can see exactly what I have done, in my next post, I'll send you the PSD file that I came up with. Pay particular attention to my use of layer blending modes, and the BlendIF sliders for each layer.
Cheers,
Tom M
