How not to lose color when replacing a bad channel??

[dipech]

Hi Everyone,

I've been stuck with this image for a while... I started out replacing the blue channel which has the worst of the damage, but this seems to have resulted in losing the navy blue in the woman's dress... Is it best to not replace the blue channel on this one??

I'll post the original here and then my best effort next

Thanks for any help,
Diane

[dipech]

Any suggestions how to get this looking better and retain the original coloring??

Thanks,
Diane

[Doug Nelson]

You could use a duplicate layer of the original image with color blend mode.