This is an example of a complete high-end recolor/retouch made for a glamour shot (beauty style as opposed to natural) .
The image was first copied, and excised with pen tool (deep etching), saved to a non-destructive smart layer, and a hand painted background was applied. The left arm was minimally altered with Liquefy. Extensive recoloring was done in Photoshop using adjustment layer masks of the following: levels, curves, exposure, selective color, and finally color balancing. The style here was intended to modernize the existing image.
Perhaps the most complex aspect of this particular image was the hair grafting. The original hair wasn't salvageable in its current state, and hair grafting was optioned. The hair used to replace actually came from multiple images, was warped, composited and then recolored.
Makeup was digitally painted in, before frequency separation, temperature and tone balancing were employed.
The final image was successfully recolored for print-ready output.
