I heart Faces

Today at I Heart Faces it's Constructive Feedback Friday.   I took this photo of my cousin Erin and her family for their Christmas Cards.  It's great of them as a family but the color is really bothering me.  The sunset was beautiful but I can't quite get it to connect with the photo.  When I try to adjust the color it ends up making their skin look like they got really bad spray tans!  

Can you help me I heart faces???  I took this photo with Erin's Canon Rebel XSI and I'm not quite sure what My settings were on, but I want some pretty colors!!

ps.  I'm also curious how could I have placed Erin's family in order to make the sunset stand out more??  I'm thinking maybe place them somewhere without trees in the background so the sunset looks closer to them??  What do you think?

FIx it Friday

Ok so I'm Not very good at this kind of thing but thought I would play along. Here is the original Photo.

Here is my edit

In Corel PaintShop ProPhotoX2 I smoothed his skin and used the Makeover tool to remove the dirt, brighten his eyes, and make his teeth and eyes whiter. I used the burn tool to burn the edges of his eyes and then selected his eyes and inverted my selection to select everything in the photo except his eyes. Then I changed what I had selected to black and white. I also adjusted the brightness a little and cropped it.

Head on over to I Heart Faces for more editing fun. If you have any suggestions to help make it better let me know!