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Just a note on the softlight blend in PS. This is a darkening function, thus simply duplicating the layer and using the softlight blend mode is likely to result in black clipped data. Softlight is extremely powerful, but needs some work. The most basic application (and one I use often), is when you've got a well balanced RGB image, perform a heavy DDP stretch and colour saturation on it. Then introduce it above the luminance as a Softlight layer. This will provide a boost in the hues. Dial back the opacity of the image if its too dark, but it shouldn't be given you've stretched it hard with DDP.
An alternative method to addressing the darkening function of softlight is to introduce a screen blend layer, but I've yet to really work this one through with consistent results.
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