Fix bleached images!

A tutorial for how to fix the depths and highlights of bleached images - several possibilities!
You can use Paint Shop for the first three, but only photoshop on the last one, as it uses Selective Coloring

INTRO
This is my first tutorial in such a long time! I know that bleached images are horrible. Washed out and grayish. Magazine scans often suffer from this, because the light ray from the scanner. Other causes can be a poorly adjusted flash from a camera. Here I got 4 different ways to get the depth back into the picture. I have not used BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST, since there is already many tutorials about the that tool.

Hope this tutorial comes to use for anyone :)

USING SOFT LIGHT
This is probably the most used method. The problem with this the contrast between highlights and shadows. I personally think they get overexposed if you use this method and sometimes leave the image a bit red, but it may vary from image to image. The method is very simple.

HOW?
Duplicate original layer (Ctrl + J) and then put the new layer's blending mode on "SOFT LIGHT". Opacity can be varied on the image. There I've used 100%

USING SCREEN & MULTIPLY
Not many know of this method, and I personally find it the simplest with the best result. Its possible to use in both Paint shop and Photoshop, and every other program with the blending modes "MULTIPLY" and "SCREEN".

HOW?
Duplicate original layer (Ctrl + J) and then put the new layer's blending mode on "SCREEN", then duplicate again(make sure it is above the SCREEN layer) and put the blending mode on "MULTIPLY". You can edit the opacity on both layers after your taste. On this image, both SCREEN and MULTIPLY is on 100%

COMBINING
Another way is to combine the multiply and the soft light method. Again, I think the shadows get too dark and the highlights too bright, but if it fits to your image - go for it.

HOW?
Duplicate original layer (Ctrl + J) and then put the new layer's blending mode on "SCREEN", then duplicate again(make sure it is above the SCREEN layer) and put the blending mode on "MULTIPLY". Then again do duplicate, put it on top, and put on "SOFT LIGHT". Opacity of the layers can be changed after your taste, I've used 100% in all the layers here.

	WITH COLORING This is what I use the most, mainly because it leaves some traces of other colors in the image (often blue-gray) and I think it looks good.(You can see it in the hair). Since this tutorial is a bit longer, I'm going to split up the table step by step. 1ST STEP Duplicate original layer, put on screen. The opacity of the screen layer should be based on how bleached out the image is. The more bleached out, the less opacity. It should never be more than 40%, then the image might end up more bleached out than it originally was. Ps. If your image is very bleached out, you should do this step with "SOFT LIGHT" instead of "SCREEN", as "SCREEN" will only make it worse :)
	2ND STEP SELECTIVE COLOR. (Oh how we all hate this). I won't say EXACT, since you have to experiment yourselves, but here is what I've about used: REDS: Cyan: around +30. Magenta: around +20. Yellow: around +50. Black: Around +20 YELLOWS: Cyan: around +30. Magenta: around +50. Yellow: around +50. Black: Around +70 CYAN: Cyan: around -70. Magenta: around -40. Yellow: around +100. Black: Around +80 MAGENTAS: Cyan: around +20. Magenta: around -60. Yellow: around -30. Black: Around -70 NEUTRALS: Cyan: around +20. Magenta: around +10. Yellow: around +10. Black: Around -30 BLACK: Everything on +100
	3RD STEP Now make a new HUE/SATURATION layer. The only thing we're going to do here is to add more SATURATION. Again it really depends on the image, and what kind of image you want to end up with. I personallity don't like too bright images, so I hardly added any more saturation, only dragged the SATURATION bar up to +11
	4TH STEP Almost done. Another very simple step. Duplicate the original layer, drag it on the top, put it on "MULTIPLY". This is probably the most essential step in the tutorial. The opacity of this really decides how "un-bleached" the image is in the end. On this image I used 30%. The more bleached the original image is, the higher the opacity of this layer has to be. 5TH AND FINAL STEP Duplicate the original layer once again, put it on "SOFT LIGHT" - opacity after your taste. I put 100%. Again, this depends on the original image and how bleached it was to begin with. And then you're finished. Hope you like the end result