below, the original photo and the photos of edited, more soft
just take a concerted several stages in this process

Stage 1
Once the photo is opened in Photoshop, then click (Layer+New Layer+Solid Fill color)
Choose a pastel color (soft colors)
Stage 2
Perform correction, to maintain the sharpness of images, and color contrast brighnest,
by performing the erase in some places, which will be created darker. select the erase brush with a low-opacity (30%), as shown below.

Stage 3.
did the process of the first stage, and both repeatedly until it gets soft tones

These tones one way to edit photos, make it more soft look, or pastel colors.
many ways to edit a photograph tones, on this blog there are several ways to edit it.
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