Hi Molly,
Thank you for your post and welcome to the forum! Thank you for all the time you must have spent with my photo in Photoshop. I don't have Photoshop but to see what you've done with that photo, I'm just about convinced I need to buy it.
With suggestions from artists on this forum, I experimented with some of the settings on my camera, mainly the white balance, and came up with some better reference photos. See the link here:
http://forum.portraitartist.com/show...=Joan+negative
If you look at post #27, Allan Rahbek was kind enough to also use Photoshop to show me a great suggetion of how to crop the photo. I think I got a great expression and a photo with all the shadows in the right places.
Thanks again for showing us what Photoshop can do.
Joan