Creating a Colorful Photoshop Effect
Go from this Image:

To this image:

In four easy steps.
First, open up the image in Photoshop that you would like to work with. Then, adjust the image saturation to -70. Your image should now look similar to this:

Now create a new layer, and choose the "soft light" blending mode. While on this layer, paint in whatever colors you would like. Here are the colors I picked:

Making sure that your new layer is still selected, go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur. A new box will pop up. Make the radius 90 pixels.
WALA! You did it..... congrats.

Don't forget to save your file, and then go and show it off to all your friends ;)! Man, you are SUCH a pro!
By Rebecca Rabb
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