This pic is a little soft but I like the expressions these two sisters have.

The girl in front was such a spaz (she was great fun!). It started to rain and she became quiet and sat on my porch with her sister. That's when I quickly snapped this shot.

*** NOTE:

As soon as I posted this I decided it was wrong. This could be better... so I reposted a new version as a workshop. It's got a link on this page (just left of this note).

Tell which you prefer.

Cheers!

1) run through NeatImage. 70%/50%/30% noise reduction and sharpening settings.

2) on PS, image created with two layers, the filtered under the original.

3) blending options: overlay (overlay increases warmth and intimacy as compared to normal). 100% fill for the filtered and 40% fill for the original image.



We can play hours with a so beautiful image, I have stopped here ;-). Hope you like it.

After looking at it again, I think I chose the wrong format in colour. I already used unsharp mask on it and it was still soft. I also already brighted the eyes (I thought that any more looked unnatural). And yes, the border isn't great.



So I tried something else: I converted to black and white, played with curves, added noise, and reduced the border.



This is the result.

Doesn't show that much but I think I succeeded in getting the features of the first little girl's face a little sharper. I selected only the face of the first little since I find it OK that the one at the back be softer.

I went wild on the Unsharp Mask settings with 125% / radius 9.8 / treshold 40.

I found that my increasing the threshold it kept the sharpening on the features but with solfter edges.

Do you notice that it made the white of the eyes whiter and the pupils with more light in them? And I did not play with colors or saturation at all, only the unsharp mask did that.



I tried different colors on your frame, from white to black, but it didn't work. So I simply replaced by a thin black line.