I heart Faces - Fix It Friday's 9-30-11

Today I joined the online community of Photographers and Momtographers looking to sharpen their photography and editing skills. I've been following a few of my fave photographers online and one of them recently recommended the Fix it Friday's to improve editing. So, without further adieu...

Here's my attempt at THIS challenge...

I can't remember all the steps I took to edit this, but here are the basics.
I started off by using the healing brush on a few specks on her face. Then I did a Gaussian blur on the face to soften it. I enhanced the saturation on her shirt, sharpened the diamond on her necklace, and adjusted the shadows and saturation on the background. I'm sure I did a few other things but since I'm learning as I go I was more concerned with making it look the way I wanted and forgot to write down the steps... BUMMER. Here's to playing around! =) Such a pretty girl!