anotherview wrote:
Cute girl. Flattering treatment. No doubt this photograph will become all the more precious with the passage of the years. You have a winner here.
Let me please suggest you use the Color Balance tool to reduce the pronounced magenta coloration of her skin tone.
You may also try a black-and-white rendition of this photograph.
Okay, I downloaded and tweaked this headshot. I adjusted the skin tone in Photoshop using Color Balance and the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer for desaturating the red color. B&W seems to do this image more justice than does color.
I used the Gradient Adjustment tool and selected Selenium 1 for the B&W treatment. And I cropped the image slightly while also applying a vignette to make the headshot stand out. I removed a whitish spot (a distraction) on her right shoulder.
Note that the Selenium 1 filter reduces highlights and brings out some tonality in the skin tone.
This way, the image takes on a classic presentation.
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I don't see the magenta coloration, and I think your b&w rendering is flat. The OP posted an exquisite photo of his granddaughter and you jumped in with suggestions I can't figure out. Have you calibrated your monitor lately?