Santa's Little Helper...

Took this pic of my lil niece after christmas using my 580 bounced.
i've posted this on the post processing forum also to ask for help but no one is responding as yet...
i had a go at making frames also. see what you think. i need help with the processing also please - if you can help make this better as i want to print this and frame and give this as a gift.

many thanks. i have the raw if you would like to try making it better..

patrick

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Here's my play with it. I smoothed out the reddish area above the lip, lightened the eyes a tad, added one pass of USM at 12-50-0 and ran it through Neat Image.
Adorable photo, BTW.

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