Adding Punch to Pictures using Photoshop

A great tip on how to use Photoshop to improve the colour of photographs which are a bit lacking in oomph.

 1. Open an appropriate flat (colour wise) photograph in Photoshop

2. On the menu bar, Select: Image; Mode; Lab Color.

3. On the menu bar, Select: Image; Apply Image, when the dialog box opens, change the Blend mode, from the default Multiply, to Overlay,  leave the Channel as 'Lab'

4. In the same dialog box, change the Opacity to 80% and Save.

There you have it, a punchier photo, in four easy steps.

To make this even easier/quicker you can create a new Action