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Alangeo1
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Having seen such wonderful results on here wondered if anyone can give me info on how to colour pics.
I am using Photoshop Full version
Alan
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Lones
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Hi Alan
I use Photoshop 7 and Photoshop CS2. The link below will take you to a kind of tutorial I posted on here a few months ago, have a read and a play with it, it should help you, I hope. Let me know if you cannot understand it or find it too hard to follow and I will try to help.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,218681.msg1143755.html#msg1143755
Hopefully it is what you need
Cheers
Lones
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Please feel free to alter or improve any restorations or colourisations submitted by me for the benefit of the Postee and their memories
Smith, Warwick Shire
Ashwell, Buckminster Leicester
Brown, Kent
OBrien/Brien, Cork
Dunstan, Stithians Corwall
Beard, Stithians Corwall
Penman, Midlothian, Perth or Fife
Dick, Fife
Ruddock, Staindrop Durham
Willis, Ingleton Durham
Gibbon, Kirkby Ravensworth
Lazenby, Middleton Yorkshire
Bradley, London
Ware, London
Pink, Bath
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Alangeo1
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Hi Lones,
Thank you for the reference will get working on it straight away, are you going to do one for the skin tones  would be of help. I do have Photoshop CS5
Alan
PS to think a simple enquiry and I get one of the top colour experts  What a site this is
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Lones
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Hi Alan, you're using the "best butter" I see, 
PS to think a simple enquiry and I get one of the top colour experts What a site this is
I love it, thank you, and I'm keeping it, so you can't take it back when you realise just how easy colouring is, okay??
Have you had time to play with the tutorial yet, any questions so far?? Let me know.
I find some people use a similar colouring method for the skin, but if you are not really careful you can always see around the hair line etc  . I use the method on the following link, never any tell tale lines this way.
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161015
I have not done a tutorial on it as it is pretty self explantory, but I did have a few minor hitches when I first tried to use it, so have a play and let me know if you are having problems and I will try to help. I can do a tut if it is required, so let me know.. (I think I have one somewhere I did for someone else, ages ago )
The skin tones should always be done first and then their coloured layers stay at the bottom of your layers window, under all the layers for clothes etc, until you finally flatten or merge all your layers. Remember not to flatten until you know the person you are colouring for is happy with your effort, otherwise you cannot change any colours without redoing the entire picture  .
I always save one to jpeg and leave the original in the photoshop format, so I have two copies of the picture, one to post and the big one to keep until I hear the "postee" is happy, then I delete the big file, unless they have asked for a bigger version to be emailed to them. Have I lost you yet??
Good luck with it Alan, please feel free to give me a yell at any time if you have any problems. Have a play and most of all enjoy yourself, colouring is really fun and it relieves stress.......
Cheers
Lones
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Please feel free to alter or improve any restorations or colourisations submitted by me for the benefit of the Postee and their memories
Smith, Warwick Shire
Ashwell, Buckminster Leicester
Brown, Kent
OBrien/Brien, Cork
Dunstan, Stithians Corwall
Beard, Stithians Corwall
Penman, Midlothian, Perth or Fife
Dick, Fife
Ruddock, Staindrop Durham
Willis, Ingleton Durham
Gibbon, Kirkby Ravensworth
Lazenby, Middleton Yorkshire
Bradley, London
Ware, London
Pink, Bath
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