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I agree. The original needed some serious editing to color, saturation, and so forth; you did a nice job. As a further suggestion, I think the post-edit image still has a magenta cast to it. I would also bring up the shadows a little. I downloaded your edited image and (i) brought down the Magenta saturation using an HSL adjustment; and (ii) applied the Shadows and Highlights filter to lighten up the shadows. This is my result:

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Have to say this.

I really like the original more than the edits. Whoops. Sorry about that.

The only thing I would have done would be crop to portrait and use a slight over sharpen for the web.

Good image looking what it is - living room and a cooperative sibling.

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2 minutes ago, Sharkey said:

I really like the original more than the edits.

I’m inclined to agree! The original has a lot of warmth which is knocked out by the edits.

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Great eye contact, the eyes could do with some catchlights, this would have been even better with a ring flash on the lens.

Some small catchlights added to the eyes.
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1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

Great eye contact, the eyes could do with some catchlights

Her left eye is in shadow and her right eye already had a catchlight. Having said that, your additional catchlights are nicely done. :)

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The color in his editing looks more natural, though.  I don't know which camera it was, but often consumer grade cameras with interior lighting (bulbs..and most are yellowish ones, warm bulbs, rarely is a 6500k bulb) made at night, don't provide natural skin/hair color unless done very professionally. (not saying the girl's colors are 100% natural, but an improve)

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I think the first one's colouring adds interest and goes with the subject, kids are all about bright colours, I think it's a good analogy of how most kids see the world. 

To me the colour correction looks insipid in comparison and really doesn't fit the subject, I suppose technically it may be correct but artistically its wrong.

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That's quite subjective....  ;)  I mean, I do like more, artistically his take.  That saturated warm colors might favor a particular vibe does not make less interesting that very natural/personal other gamma. Maybe it's more "her". Maybe shows better her personality/expression...

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The first edit was to me OK-ish.

The second edit (working from the first) however left grey streaks because of the desaturation used to remove the 'magenta caste'.

I realise this is all subjective.

I would therefor not dream to try to do better as that is also 'subjective'.

Realism, character, accuracy, point of the image capture; are three variables that are all up for opinion and on line comparison is usually disastrous anyway.

I would have advised a little general desaturation of the young ladies face/ hair and a little sharpening round the eyes (not just the eye itself).

Selecting a different colour balance may have also been a little more subtle.

If the cushion (right middle) is in fact white and accuracy was a target then selecting that area as a visual aid when changing the colour temperature might also assist.

 

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Thanks everyone for the feed back, the camera used was Lumix GX800 (micro 3/4) with my prime lens, I was playing about with my manual settings trying to get the feel of it.

What  I did was pretty quick edit on my IPad while sitting at my desk at work, Ive been watching one of the AP courses on Udmey and decided to give it a quick try,

to see how quick it was to change things to get it looking more to my liking.

 

  

 

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