01 The first step is load your image and add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. You can come back to the Saturation control at any point to change how the colour processing is applied. Add +25 to the saturation, to keep your main colours well defined. Reducing the saturation here can result in more subdued looks, where the colour mainly comes from your Curves layer.
02 Next add a Gradient adjustment layer. This is to create the coloured vignette effect. Set the gradient style to Radial, and now edit the gradient itself. Here I used a greyish pink colour #8F7480 for the centre of the gradient, and a dark green, #0B3A24, for the outside. We can change the scale of our vignette and move the centre around manually. I used it with the Soft Light blending mode at 100%.
03 Add a Curves adjustment layer next – this is where we can experiment. I slightly raised and lowered the black and white points respectively, and created a subtle S-curve to add contrast. Using the black and white points of the colour curve, add a lot of extra red tones to the shadows, about half as much green to the shadows and remove lots of blue from the highlights.
04 Now add a Selective Color layer. This is where we can fine-tune the colouring for all of the individual colours in our image. I set it to Absolute, and in the Red channel I added in +23 Magenta and +6 Yellow. Then in the Yellow channel I used +8 Cyan, -3 Magenta and +17 Yellow, and in the White channel I added in +6 Cyan and +4 Yellow. The results of this process are very much influenced by your initial saturation setting.
05 Your image is almost ready to have some textures applied to it, but first I used a Levels adjustment layer to further raise, and also clip, the black point. Here I dragged the black point on the Input level up to 43, then did the same thing again with the black point on the output level. This is another effect that can be fine-tuned and tweaked to your own taste, and just helps to add a subdued, scanned photograph look to your image.
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