In this tutorial we are going to try and make the natural colors of a picture a bit brighter. It only requires a couple of steps to have greate colors on any photograph. Open the picture you want to correct and duplicate it Layer-Duplicate-Layer.

All you have to do now is change the layer mode to Soft light and there you have: brighter colors.

Look at the upper part of the picture that has been enhaced and then the bottom part that remains in its original form.

Here is the picture already corrected.

It works greate when you have a picture with lots of colors and textures.

like this one.