"Paraty Black" is one of the e107 themes I did with Search engines in mind. It is not graphically the best, I know. It is old fashioned, I know. It does its own tricks! It rewrites the news titles for google and co, so I get nice .html files Works by e107 theme and mod rewrite, so no core hacking is done. This way it is more "blog" like. For a private site I think the better choice over furl, which does better results if you got your main content in the e107 forum.
Really interesting, well until you try the technique on pics that contain skin.
You get a colour boost and your have to do another skinfix.
Then I remembered the good ol lab mode, and voila, doing this only on the lightness channel helped.
Example:
Original
Clarified
Now the steps:
duplicate your Image convert to LAB mode select the lightness channel select/clolor range/midtones edit/copy select lab channel edit/paste filter/other/high pass (25-50) set layer to soft light convert to rgb with flatten select all edit copy close edit paste
you are almost done
tweak the layer to your liking
have fun!
Members can download the free photoshop action here