[Cynthia Daniel]

I've taken the libery of posting the version of Renee's portrait from her web pages. The skin tones are softer here than in her original image above in this thread.

As a general note, I've noticed when I scan, darks tend to go darker and lights tend to go lighter with very light areas often looking almost totally washed out. I do selective adjustments, where needed before posting a portrait on a web site for this reason. But, I've been scanning and adjusting portraits for 6 years and this isn't something everyone is going to be able to do.