i ♥ faces Fix-it Friday, week #35

This week the mother that submitted the photo said... "This is a picture of my daughter. She and I always practice with my camera, she loves to pose and smile for me. I just think the straight of camera is dull and her cheeks are really rosy. I also really wish her eyes would be more clear."

So here is the before image:

I rotated and cropped the photo to highlight the face more.  I adjusted the skin color and smoothed out the face.  Next I popped the eyes and sharpened the hair.  I like a bit of rosy in the cheeks so I didn't remove it, just smoothed it out.  Finally added a burn to it.

Here I wanted to really define the hair more.  I still don't know if I am a 100% in love with this one either.  I think she looks too washed out.  I did play around with the hue's on the green for the grass as well.

So I couldn't leave it alone and had to come back here to play around again with some tips from Wendy....Thanks!  I am sure that I didn't take the best route on the curves feature, but it was the first time I had ever done it.  I applied it to the face on a copied layer, cut out the eyes and then unchecked to use the copied layer.  I really need to get my head around what masking is.  I also played with the hues on the green as well as adding a filter.  I didn't do any blurring this time and I really like this last edit the best.

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