Help....

I'm trying to see if there's a way to achieve the nice coloring in some of these icons using PSP instead of PS? Any tips would be super appreciated. Just a way to achieve some of this coloring without selective coloring:

http://take-wing.livejournal.com/8048.html (The Zac Efron & Hairpsray icons have gorgeous coloring to them)
(Also, the icon Im using).

Thanks very much in advance!