Hey everybody, I have here a portrait shot of which is a part of a great memory for me, but it was a poorly taken shot. I've no idea of my camera's settings at the time, but it was taken on a point and shoot on a sunny day with a ten second timer with the camera badly positioned on a slanted surface. The original was very dark, with a more blown out sky, on an angle (which I fixed by rotating and cropping), and quite unbalanced. I have already had a go with layers of varying shadow and highlight work, levels, selective coloring, etc. Also, the skin tones were quite reddish to begin with. What I have is a better result than before, but I still think that the contents of the shot can be technically improved on, further. It's still noisy, and there is weird color noise, like reddish splotches in some people's faces, on blue tshirts, etc.
I'd greatly appreciate any PS CS2 advice (bearing in mind that I've not had the program for more than a few days and it's a big step up from what I used to dabble and mess around with), and wouldn't say no to edits demonstrating something improved. My monitor is calibrated within my current means, with Adobe Gamma.
Thanks very much for any help. Below are the original shot, followed by my edit.
R.ticle One
Tiny little No Name Tripod. Photoshop CS2.
), we were all having so much fun and dealing with 5 or so cameras on the same small surface trying to take a shot, that I neglected to think of it! 
