~*~ Basic Coloring ~*~

In this lesson you can use any PsP proggie you have! Me  l only use PsP 7 & 8  =]

Step 1 - save the 2 images below to your computer then open to your PsP  and 16 mil it.

Step 2 - Lets use our retouch tool  and color to target. Colour l used for skin is #DFCDB9. Do not put colour on her eyes or shirt only her skin at this stage.

Step 3 -  Now lets use colour #5A442B for her lips and shirt .

Step 4 - Now we are going to add some effects, there are many ways you can do this without the use of  filter plugins.

Go up top the effects - Enhance Photo > Automatic Contrast Enhancement

settings  > Bias ..Darker  / Strength ..Mild / Appearance ..Bold then click ok

Once you have done that duplicate the image on your layer pallet use sharpen and tap out her eyes, lips and shirt.

Step 5 - Place her on top of the background and erase the background from the girl to only show at top.

Step 6 - Now you may use soften as you wish just dont over do it ! make sure you only just tap on her skin stay away from her eyes and lips.

You can soften using  Xero Smoftmood with the following settings > 100,0,0,50,50,50,0,0,0,0,62,31,12 [ these are tabby's settings ]

Step 7 - Ok now you have soften her and lets duplicate her once again and go up to Effects and to Sharpen more , 

bring your Easer tool size down to about 3 and Opacity 30ish. Step 10 , Hardness 8 , Den 100. and bring out eyes, lips and some of her shirt and some of the BG.

Your Image paint should look something like this

Once you did these steps add any small font yah likes. We all done. Hope you Liked this easy Lesson LOL. 

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