//PS: lifelike colorization + makeup

A lot of people seem to find it really difficult to not only colorize at all, but to colorize a believable-looking image. So, here is a colorization tutorial for your convinience. Hopefully it's easy enough to follow... if you have questions, I'll be more than happy to try and answer them.

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GASP! A little warning: if you're a newbie with Photoshop, you may find this pretty confusing. There's a lot of work with layers, blending modes, and opacity. I'd label this tutorial as Late Intermidiate to Advanced. Please forgive the grainy quality of some of my .gif's... they're big images, and the quality was reduced when I saved them as .gif's. They get the main idea across, though.

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