With movie film, there's a process called bleaching. It's used to desaturate the colors, but it also boosts the black and white and silver of the image. It's used to create cold or dramatic effects, and is sometimes tinted to increase the effect. I'd like to try to get this effect in Photoshop. In film, this is done by actually bleaching the film during processing. I've tried desaturating, but it doesn't look right. I've also tried placing a grayscaled version of the image under the color image and fading the opacity of the color image, but it still doesn't look like what I'm looking for. And I have no idea how to get the silvering effect. Any ideas?

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