New Post, a New Edit

OK, I'm trying to keep it warmer this time.  :)  LOVE this shot.

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Here's the original:

And here's what I did:
Cloned out the small piece of cello from back of head.  Ran CoffeeShop Perfect Portrait action and used the SoftSkin, Lighten, Sharpen, Eye Define, Vivid Color (to eyes) functions, also lightly dodged under eye circles, iris, and catch-lights in eyes. Burned outer rim of iris and along lash line.  Merged layers, copied photo, and pasted in a new window.  In new window ran Chocolate Action, and merged layers.  Copied photo and pasted to new layer in previous window, reduced opacity, then merged layers.  I thought the very top of her head was too light after all this, so I duplicated the final product, blended with multiply, applied a mask, and then lightly masked in the top of her head against the sky.