Matching colors 1 photo to another

II have to match a shade of "gold" that's more yellow than this copper look suggests to other shots in the series. Am going crazy trying to match numbers in levels, curves and/or hue saturation from one photo to the other; can get red and green right, but blue is way over and when I change it, the other numbers go awry. I'm working with CS4 on a MacPro. Have spent hours, feel like a dog gnawing on his tail. Suggestions would be enormously appreciated. Thank you.

Some people prefer not to make files with lots of layers and use the history brush instead and take snapshots so if that is the way you prefer to work the history brush is how you adjust certain areas or restore art or the image.
There might be a way you would prfer to work that is similar but different it takes a little getting use to but might help you.
Image>Adjustments>Match Color now since this is not a layer adjustment you either do the adjustment on a duplicate layer or you use the hitory brush to restore certain parts of the image which can actually also be done as fill command form the edit menu.
Say you wanted to restore the background to the original after you do your adjustments. So you do a selection of the background and the Edit>Fill>History and you since you can use that at a percentage it gives you quite a lot of control. Along of course with the History brush.
This is because some adjustments are not layer adjustments like Match Color.

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I don’t think I explained myself very well.
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