How was this done?

[abe_iis]

From THIS post.
Thank you for the great restoration effort, I only hoped that you would have provided us with the steps taken to reach this output, or a youtube video showing us how - I look forward to your feedback soon ;-)
Thank you,
Abe

Edit by @Babine

 

[Babine]

I used curves adjustment layers in Photoshop to neutralize the colour casts; i.e. set colour samplers on the areas that should be white and balance the RGB values; selected the sky and coloured it with a light blue gradient (forgot to mask out the bridge); added blue to the water by painting on a new layer in Colour Mode; same for the buildings and grass areas in the background; clouds/mist added with a soft cloud brush. In hindsight, I could have searched the net for a sailboat matching the position, warped it to fit and played with the layer opacity to replace the blown out whites.

 

[abe_iis]

Thank you for the great restoration effort, I only hoped that you would have provided us with the steps taken to reach this output, or a youtube video showing us how - I look forward to your feedback soon ;-)
Thank you,
Abe

I used curves adjustment layers in Photoshop to neutralize the colour casts; i.e. set colour samplers on the areas that should be white and balance the RGB values; selected the sky and coloured it with a light blue gradient (forgot to mask out the bridge); added blue to the water by painting on a new layer in Colour Mode; same for the buildings and grass areas in the background; clouds/mist added with a soft cloud brush. In hindsight, I could have searched the net for a sailboat matching the position, warped it to fit and played with the layer opacity to replace the blown out whites.

Thank You - that is an intense strategy and we all can see the results - I was hoping for a profile that I can use on similar photos without getting granular per picture process; do you think you can get a similar (close enough) result with a profile/process steps I can use on other similar pictures?

 

[Babine]

Thank you for the great restoration effort, I only hoped that you would have provided us with the steps taken to reach this output, or a youtube video showing us how - I look forward to your feedback soon ;-)
Thank you,
Abe

Thank You - that is an intense strategy and we all can see the results - I was hoping for a profile that I can use on similar photos without getting granular per picture process; do you think you can get a similar (close enough) result with a profile/process steps I can use on other similar pictures?

For my purposes and knowing that I had other pictures to match, I would experiment until I attained 'the look' then repeat the steps while recording to an action in Photoshop.
Have you looked through the numerous plug-in filters that are available. Topaz (Texture Effects for example), NIK, etc? Many have trial version at no cost. Have you tried searching Google as there are a lot of tutorials out there.

Good luck.