Great blending, but the difference in noise between the face and the clothes and hand is disconcerting.

Needs more matching texture on the face, but good color match.

agree with cmyk46 , then you will have a good one.

All in all pretty decent work . Perhaps tone down the brightness of her face a little.

Good call, Chappy. She does seem to have a bit of facial shine going on...The texture is a harder fix. I added a bit of film grain and canvas texture, but recreating 15th Century cracks is harder than it would seem...

Nice improvement author , may I suggest trying a little Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Play with the settings; amount, Gaussian/monochromatic and such. Maybe it will help. That is on the layer with her face on it of course.

Beautiful work author...also one of the top 3 IMO...GL

Thank you all for the kind words. This was a fun contest!

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