ORA bit simpler:
Open in PS, adjust levels/curves till nice and solid B&W, use the Magic Wand or any cut out tool to select an area to be coloured, make a new layer, on this layer use the paint tool to put a colour swash down in this selected shape, slightly blur it to mush edges, and use a layer effect such as Overlay or Multiply to add the colour to the background, continue in this fashion until it is all coloured in, then use the Picker set to Auto Select Layer to choose each section and the Dodge and Burn tools to add shades to the block colours. Finally, take the original background, duplicate it, and move it up the layers over everything you've done so far and use Darken or similar to make the inked edges solid black again.
(Open in PS, adjust levels/curves till nice and solid B&W, use the Magic Wand or any cut out tool to select an area to be coloured, make a new layer, on this layer use the paint tool to put a colour swash down in this selected shape, slightly blur it to mush edges, and use a layer effect such as Overlay or Multiply to add the colour to the background, continue in this fashion until it is all coloured in, then use the Picker set to Auto Select Layer to choose each section and the Dodge and Burn tools to add shades to the block colours. Finally, take the original background, duplicate it, and move it up the layers over everything you've done so far and use Darken or similar to make the inked edges solid black again.
..wil,
Wed 3 Oct 2007, 16:32,
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