Giving Old Song Covers New Life

Below is the song cover I'll be using.

Open Color Range.

Using the Eyedropper, select the background color.

Hold the Shift key down and select the areas you want to include.

Below is the areas I have selected.

Use Feather and specify 2

Open New Adjustment Layer.

Select Color Balance.

Under Midtones max out Red and Green in the positive and Yellow in the negative.

With Shadows selected set Magenta to -48.

For Highlights set Cyan to -36; Magenta -2; Yellow -52.

Select Invert.

Using New Adjustment Layer, select Curves and Group with Previous Layer.

Set anchor points where necessary and adjust.

Using a paintbrush, I set the Opacity to 45% and Flow to 6%. Added cheek color and lip color plus added a color highlight to the eye area.

Duplicate the picture layer and apply a rich black (CMYK = 50, 50, 50, 100) frame to the picture.