Wow!!!! Now this looks a LOT better! She looks sooooo much better against that gorgeous background!! how did you do that? did you use that studio type backdrop that Richard suggested? i think Cindy may be right...maybe just i tiny bit darker background might make this look even better!!! the lipstick looks a lot better here too! not as harsh. what did you do to fix that? and i see you made her hair look better too!!! You said it's hard to recover the hair color, but whatever you did certainly does make her hair look a lot better than in your 1st postworked version! the tones seem to be more evened out. sorry, hard to describe! i also really like that subtle outline or shadow that's around her!!! not sure exactly what that is but it looks great! And the framing is perfect!!! agree with Mike on this...you show this one off you're gonna get all kinds of people asking you for help doing their kids' portraits!!! ok...forget the original...you've sold me on this one!!! high 5s Andreas!!!! :)