Couple

[Candice]

Getting the coloration of this out was a challenge to me.   Let me know if you see anything please and thank you.

[Pat]

Beautiful job on a very difficult color correction Candy.  Could you share a few details on how you accomplished it?
 
There is a horizontal area of discoloration on her chest, about level with the necklace pendant.  It also includes the shoulder area of her blouse photo left as well as just a tiny bit of the collar photo right.  

Pat    

[Candice]

Beautiful job on a very difficult color correction Candy.  Could you share a few details on how you accomplished it?
   
There is a horizontal area of discoloration on her chest, about level with the necklace pendant.  It also includes the shoulder area of her blouse photo left as well as just a tiny bit of the collar photo right. 

Pat   

I see it now that you mention it. When I posted, I didn't.  I think I got it now.

As for my steps... Oh my!  I moved this picture from RGB into Lab and looked at it. Was not impressed.  I then moved it into CMYK and had better results with finding the colors.  I broke down the picture.  Removing the background from the couple and started there.  I blended a cloud layer with the original background and that helped keep it real.  From that point I started working on the couple.  There was a great deal of hand painting involved in this picture.  After that it's really a matter of backing off and looking at the coloration of the skin etc....

[Pat]

Looks really nice!

It's good that in Photoshop there are so many ways available to try and tackle a difficult situation like your color correction.  Thanks for sharing so we can all learn.

Pat

[Mhayes]

Beautiful restore! I bet the family will be surprised at the results on this one.

Margie

[Candice]

Margie and Pat, thank you.  I hope that the family will too.  That's my hearts desire!   :loveit:

Sending them home.