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1. I started with this image from Firefly, of River holding Simon’s hand. It’s way too blue.

2. First things first, I duplicated that layer and then went to my Hue/Saturation panel (either Command/Control-U, or Image-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation) and lowered the saturation to -58. We’ll punch up the color again later, but for now, having less blue to work with means less blue to get rid of.

3. Next, I duplicated the less-saturated layer, and opened up my Color Balance (Image-Adjustments-Color Balance) panel. I know a lot of Photoshop users will argue for Curves, and curves does a good job for overall color shifts, but isn’t easy to use. I’ve found you can achieve much more subtle coloring with the Color Balance panel. I lowered all the blues and shifted them to yellow, and took the cyans into red. Here are the settings I used:

I ended up with this:

4. Duplicate the layer again. To brighten it, I changed the levels (Image-Adjustments-Levels). I used the settings below.

And ended up with this:

5. While nice, I felt it needed a bit more. So I duplicated the last layer, and set it to Soft Light, opacity 100%. It ended up looking like this:

That’s it! It’s super-easy. This technique can be used to get rid of any color. Obviously, your settings will never be the same, but if you play around with it, you’ll find something that works for you.

My final layers panel:

Here are the pieces:

Images from here, here, and here, respectively.

Click below to see the final product…