Help! portrait of redhead, skin too light?

[October Reader]

Jennifer, I hope you don't mind me sidetracking here for just a moment. Sorry!

I am SO glad to have stumbled upon this forum. The range of available resources here is just out of this world - all the way from the spiritual to the technical and to the pragmatic, and, of course the intermittent laughters are so very necessary as well!

Garth, I would be very honored if you could critique one of my paintings down the road using this Photoshop method which you demonstrated here on Jennifer's work, especially regarding subtleties in value. Value is my weak point. THANKS IN ADVANCE. And I would love to go on and on about "Jane and Lona" and your "52 gray scale" methodology but that would be disrespectful to the main focus here on this thread.

OK, back to you Jennifer. Thanks for letting me go off on a tangent !