True that You could try Gaussian blurring an applied layer by like 5 and setting on overlay and lowering opacity works like a charm for me ^_^
Merd the Cleaned up version actually looks better than the others. Still all the main people look a little washed out. Pink that looks cool but as already stated lessen the contrast and we will have a winner. Oh and guys give me something to work with I wanna enter too ya know .. GEEEEZ