Ok! on this tutorial we are going back to basic, yep this is definitely a basic tutorial on how to add a soft focus and brings you a rich color improvements, it has been used a lot on wedding photos , using this effect alone can make all your photo looks great, your client will surely be amaze and astonished as long as your client didn't saw the process. (lol)

First download the photo of Japanese Cherry blossom also known as sakura on flickr, or you can use your own, it could be a wedding, vacation trip or your love one.

Open up our photo on Photoshop, and then duplicate it [Ctrl J].

Select your duplicated layer, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, the radius must be equal or higher than 5.

Then Change its blending mode to overlay.

and that's the first end result we got in here, you have done a soft focus effect on our photo, next would be making it more dream like.

Duplicate your sakura layer and put it underneath our previews overlayed layer, and change its blending mode to lighten, (you can use screen in some photo depends on the kind of photo you are using) then put down the opacity to 63% or lower, just make sure it wont look exaggerate.

and that would be our final result, a complete tranformation of a photo into a dream with soft focus effect.