Help with retouching this pic of my daughter

Here's my renditions of your daughter:





















I look at her photo and I cant help feeling that there’s an underlying pain or anguish of some sort and I don’t mean to imply anything or cause trouble but she’s got the saddest look on her face, almost makes me cry just looking at her photo and thinking about it.
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What can I say but thank you to each and every one of you for taking the time out of your day/night to do wonders with the pic of Sophie.

I loved some of the comments I received as well. And no my feelings were not hurt when someone said they saw sadness in her eyes. I think that is one of the reasons I love this pic so much. In general she is a happy go lucky kid who loves to ride her horse and hates school with a passion. She is also my wifes best friend and a great little mate to me. Has been since she was smaller than my knees.
When she came out that morning I too noticed that look and raced for my camera.
Thanks again everyone. I LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE ALL DONE!
Now I have to go out and buy lots more frames LOL

Cheers

Jeff
Pandora1
 
There are so many fabulous renditions of this photo in this thread! I love what you've done here. His daughter has such a natural beauty, and this is just so fun to look at. Very creative, and perfect for this particular picture.
 
I am just blown away by the response from everyone. Wait till I show Sophie.
Thanks again to EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff
Pandora1
 
Hi GGB

I am posting my version below despite yours which is brilliant.

Please can you tell me how youm got the colour and texture to the
face - it is the look I try to get - but don't!!

Best wishes

Ray
Thanks Ray. She is beautiful - the 'mood' is so mysterious.

For her skin, I used the healing brush in CS2 on separate layers with various opacities to remove the blemishes and color mismatches, clone tool at 10 & 20% to smooth the transitions, solid color adj layers using her skin color with a soft brush at 15% to balance the tone and added in some soft reds with a separate layer in color mode and light opacity. To increase the saturation, I use a black-to-white gradient map layer in luminosity mode. I finished with Neat Image on a separate layer, masking out those areas that I did not want effected and added light monochromatic uniform noise for the texture.
Hope this helps.

Cheers.

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GGB

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