you only need to desaturiseimages that have different tones in them. That image up there is green-scale, and can easily be colourised without desaturating first.
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Damocles wants no part of your debauchery,
Wed 25 Oct 2006, 10:25,
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clicking 'colourise' makes everything the same tone anyway
mugatu,
Wed 25 Oct 2006, 10:34,
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