Colorize
Using black and white graphics and colorizing
them
give very dramatic effects.
This was a color graphic.
Download it here.
I made it grayscale. Colors, grayscale.
Colors Increase color depth to 16 mil colors.
Add a layer.
I wanted her nails, cheeks and mouth to have color.
Click on the paint brush, the brush size I used is 3.
ZOOM IN CLOSE!
Paint the nails.
Add a layer.
Zoom in on the mouth.
Paint the mouth.
Slide the opacity bar down till you get the
effect you want on layer two.
Add a layer.
Add pink color to the cheeks.
Move the bar down to about 28.
Use the smudge tool, shown, set on soften,
to smooth the cheek color.
I used the clone tool to remove her bow.
Selections, modify, contract 20 pixels.
You number of pixels may vary with your graphic.
Invert the selection.
Flood fill with a color. I used eyecandy to
give it a bevel.
And a shadow on the inside of the frame.
This is the finished graphic.