Damien Symonds

There is no black-and-white layer there. Use this for your black-and-white conversion.

Your question seems to be based on the assumption that only one of the lenses would cause reduction? If her left lens caused it, so would her right lens.

Correct. No, I don't agree. The fix you posted looked perfectly fine to me.

Any time you view at a non-standard zoom this is a risk. Only use Cmd + and - keys for zooming.

In that case, try doing the enlargement with the point on her pupil instead.

Weird. Ah well, at least it's working.

You mean the scroll bar isn't there?

And can you see the scroll bar to the right of the photo?

Which web browser are you using?

Yes, that would seem to confirm what people have been saying lately, that WHCC's quality is slipping. Nothing changes. You need to calibrate such that your screen matches your lab's prints. The numbers are somewhat meaningless.

Windows Viewer isn't colour-managed. Never use it. Only use Bridge to browse your images.

Millers are crap, you must never use them.

If you google "Wacom circle around cursor" you'll find plenty of hits.

Either it's black-and-white, or it's not. This is not. Please show me a screenshot of your layers panel.

The short answer is "no". You can exaggerate backlight, but it's damned hard to created it out of a front- or side-lit photo.

Now you need a thin but distinct bit of shadowing around the edge of the ground itself. So it looks a bit indented.

Standard.

I'd probably lower the Lightness slider on a Hue/Sat layer, and paint that on.

Yeah, the bottom (waist) part needs to be a bit darker with shadow, yes?

Good grief, you don't use Curves for that, and you definitely don't use the black eyedropper. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/02/using-photo-filter-layer-to-fix-casts.htm

What are you trying to fix?

I really don't know. But I bet the Pen Tool was heavily involved, either in Photoshop or in Illustrator.

If you can just tidy up the masking where the chain enters the top tag, I'd say it's fine!

Yep, correct.

Here's a PSD showing one step of the many steps involved in this.