The following is my Infrared Process. It is by no means the only way to achieve this effect but it is the way I do it. You can view my Infrared Gallery Here: http://www.enslavedlight.com/myphotography/ 7. Transfer your images to your photo-manager (I use picasa 2)
8. Pick an image that looks good, and open with your choice of Raw editor. Myself I now use Adobe Light Room. Its slow but it has the most advanced features of all the Raw editors I have used.
9. Tweak White Balance or fix it if you forgot to set a custom WB. This is important, your white balance must be corrected for my process to work correctly. And in most cases this is why people have a hard time with processing IR images.
10. Adjust lighting and exposure
11. Import to PS
12. From here I have a PS script that does the following. There are 3 actions in this set. Sat +, Sat - and B&W. Use only one. You can Download it here: [url]http://jeffreyklassen.com/actions/JK_IR_Processing.zip[/url]. Or just make the layers yourself with the below settings.
A.Creates a Channel Mixer layer with the following settings
Red Output: Red = 0%, Green = 0%, Blue = 100% Green Output: Red = 0%, Green = 100%, Blue = 0% Blue Output: Red = 100%, Green = 0%, Blue = 0%


B.Creates a Curves later above that, with Auto (I tweak it later)
C.Creates a Saturation layer above that with the following settings
Reds: -40 saturation (Always have to tweak this) Cyans: +20 saturation Blues: +30 saturation
This is the result of the Sat + Script. It could use a little more saturation though. Also the layers it will create.


13. Depending on what script you ran, you will either have a usable B&W image or a almost finished colour IR image. Either way from here on every image is very different. Here are something's that I usually do:
A. Create a copy of the background layer and run Noise Ninja on it. Use a layer mask to choose what areas show through. I place this layer above the background. All this layer does it remove select areas of noise while leaving other areas alone.
B. Soft light layer - This is basically a advanced dodge and burn layer. Just create a new blank layer. Apply a Soft Light Blend Mode to it, and use a soft air brush. Paint white or black on the layer to dodge or burn the image underneath it. This is how many people do dodge and burn with out actually ruining the source image. One thing you should notice about my process is that the background image is still 100% untouched. All my work is done in this fashion.
C. I usually end up with a couple levels layers with masks to add contrast to specific areas, so I will adjust levels till the high and low lights clip, then mask those areas to bring the detail back.
D. Sharpen
This process should get you decent results if you follow it, but you have to remember that every photo is different and you will need to tweak lots of little things to get it just right.
This is my final image, in the end I added some noise layers, sharpening layers, and a manual light layer. Not a whole lot of extra work.


PS. Well I hope someone find this useful, I will add more information to this walk through over time.