Suzi, earlier this year I watched a wonderful video tutorial on workflow. This was from the NoBS website.

The very first thing this man did with all, or most all images was what he called "De Fog"

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The top is what I downloaded and below is what happens if you apply Unsharp Mask with settings of 20-60-0 I find myself doing this with just about every image I work with. Now, this of course adds sharpening which you don't want so I then applied the Neat Image filter to remove noise as Michel explained...

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Now you are ready to crop, dodge, burn, vignette, frame, etc ... all of the composition stuff
This is really a great, expressive image.

Rusty

That de-fogging is a really good tip, I think I will be doing that to all my images also. Thanks, Rusty. I love the expressions, would love to make a print for Great-grandma and Alexis. I am writing down all the suggestions and when I get a final version will post for critique. Might be awhile, keep those suggestions coming.

I tried, but I'm not getting anything as good as the others......I've got so much to learn!! I'm glad to know about the unsharp mask settings; oh, I downloaded Neat Image, too. So, you needed help; I couldn't help, but you got good help, and I learned something new. Great deal all around, right?

I am so glad you got some good out of this, I am working on posting 2 versions of the help I got. I am so hoping more members who want help with images will do this. It can be so informative

I agree, Suzi.........I'm here to learn and help when I'm able. We've got a good thing going......just needed a shot in the arm.

Well, here is what I came up with. I took bits from all of you, Michel and Rusty the noise, eyes, glasses, sharpening, darkening the edges, de-fog and more. Christell I used your tight crop but maybe even more so , I muted the colors on one alittle because they seems to harsh and of course I had to try a B/W. I can't thank you guys enough for your input. What you think of the final versions???? Still need changes???

I like them both, but I think I like the muted color one the best. Great Grandma will love it.

Thank you so much, Sunny. I sure hope she does, she is my greatest critic.

I like all of the pictures, but i am really drawn to the effect MichelB gave the photo. So warm.

Of the two choices, muted color looks best to me.
Considering all the efforts, I vote for Michel's

Rusty