How to use PS layer mode to quickly remove ash

When we take photos, the photos will be gray, with poor texture, opacity and low saturation. So how to use PS layer mode to quickly remove gray scale and improve the transparency and color of photos? This is a photo of Xue Cun in Songling, Northeast China. The warm sunshine in the morning shines through the forest, which is very beautiful. The only fly in the ointment is that cooking in the village in the morning is shrouded in a lot of smoke, which leads to insufficient transparency. The color is also dark. We open the photo in PS and press CTRL+J to copy a layer. Click on the layer above and select the layer mode as soft light. You can see that the picture immediately improves and becomes more transparent, enhancing contrast and saturation. If you think the soft light mode is not strong enough to remove gray, you can choose a stronger strong light and superposition mode. If you want to adjust the intensity slightly, you can choose opacity. Make some minor adjustments. In addition, we can increase the intensity of ashing by copying layers. The principle of ashing is because this mode removes the gray in the picture and enhances the white and black of the picture, similar to the S curve in the curve. We can also combine masks to control the intensity of some parts. Contrast before and after retouching!