the original image was slightly underexposed and just a tad out of focus but i really liked the way that her face looked so i added layer after layer of noise reduction, gaussian blur, and gloom until i had a really vague form to work with and then added circular screen a few times in different spots for contrasting whirls, then finished with a really fine dot screen to unify the circular whirls and some contrast. i didn't shoot this at the fine setting because i'm still on dial-up and it takes forever to load an image when the file is huge.....