TUTORIAL: Brilliant coloring using hard light and luminance layers

I've got a lot of questions about how I get my vibrant, clean coloring style, so I decided to make a tutorial for those who would like to see how it's done. NOTE: This style looks geat on both real photos and anime/cartoon screenshots.

Today, we'll be going from this:  to this:  using PSP8 in 7-8 steps.
Difficulty: Basic knowledge of blending options and the effects brower
Transferability: I'm almost 100% sure this can be transfered to Photoshop



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