This tutorial teaches you to
apply soft light effect on your image.
Open your image :-
Press control+j to duplicate
the layer and press shift+control+u to desaturate the new
layer.
Click on Add layer mask button
as shown :-
Your layer pallate should look
like this :-
Click on layer mask thumbnail
to active it and go to Image>Apply image :-
Your image should look like
this :-
Now, click on image thumbnail
to active it. ( It is located just before the layer mask thumbnail
). Now do two things :-
1. Go to
filter>Blur>Gaussian blur and give 2.5 radius.
2. Change the blending mode of
the layer to Multiply.
Duplicate this layer again and
change its blending mode to Linear doge. You now have soft ligt
effect on your image. If you want more light than change the
blending mode to Color Dodge.