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So, we're back in Photoshop and I've gone ahead and painted out a grayscale version using our Comics Airbrush and I modified it slightly and I'll have saved that modification for you. Basically what I did was I controlled the Opacity via pen pressure as well and just kept the Opacity low and that just gave me a little bit more control to paint in back and forth between black and white in normal Blending Mode. I didn't want to take the time to show you how to do that because it really isn't all that important. You understand how to use that tool at this point. What is important is this technique. This technique is exclusive to Photoshop. You can't do this in Painter. However, it's very, very handy and it's a very fast and easy way to get color into a black and white file. If you are not real comfortable with color and you feel good about rendering in terms of black and white you may find that this technique works real well for you. Now, of course, we still need our flats because we're going to need to select each piece that we want to work with but the technique to add color here couldn't be simpler. It's really, really easy. So, once we have our black and white, I'm just going to go ahead and make sure that I select that in the flats so I'm just going to make sure that I get that guy, just like so. Go back up here and I'm going to hide that, so there we go. We don't have to look at that. Now we're going to go up to Image, Adjustments and we're going to do Selective Color. This is one of my favorite Palettes in Photoshop. It's really useful. It's been around forever, so it's not any kind of a new thing, it's just been there forever. Let's go ahead and adjust our Neutrals first. So, what I want is I want to get something that's kind of a skin tone color here, so what I'll do is I'll increase my Yellow and increase my Magenta until I get something that looks relatively like a skin tone. I'm going to go to my whites and I'm going to drop out, I'm going to increase a little black first off, that way I can darken up my whites so they're not white anymore. I'm going to drop out Cyan and then I'm going to increase the Yellow. What that's going to allow me to do is to get something that looks very much like sunlight hitting, let's see here, maybe not quite that, just a little bit more Magenta, that way it fades in better with our midtones and I'm going to go back to my Neutrals here and just boost up the Yellow just slightly so that things flow a little better. Now here's where the magic comes in and this only works if you painted like I painted here where we only have one light source and no reflected light. But if you do that then what you can do is you can actually drop out the black in your blacks and then you can say, OK, let me going to go ahead and reduce the Yellow and now, just like that, we get ourselves some nice reflected light and this can be a really easy cheesy kind of method for developing something that looks very much like you painted it but you didn't. You just painted a grayscale with a single light source and boom, there we go. That is our Colorization. And you'll see that very often with people who don't feel very comfortable choosing colors in terms of, you know, how do I know what color is going to look right here, how do I know what color's going to look right there? But, at the same time they feel very comfortable with rendering. It's a very, very easy technique and the only thing about it is, is you do need Photoshop to do that particular technique and basically what you would do is you would go through your P step by step, select all the areas and go to Selective Color and make those adjustments until everything was colorized. That's pretty much it.