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coloring - method one
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coloring - method two
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The quickest way to fill your selected area now with the color you've chosen is by using the "Alt/Backspace" buttons on your keyboard. Sometimes before "deselecting" an area (after I've filled it with color) I will give an area of it a sweep with the "burn" tool and the "dodge" tool. This easily adds highlights and shadows to an area without affecting anything around it. It's also just as easy to pick lighter and darker variations in your Color Picker and use those with your airbrush tool (found in the tool bar). If your "brush" palette is not already open, you can get it by going to "Window" and click on "Show Brushes".
Finished an area that you wish had been a different color, but don't have the time to recolor it all by scratch? Before reaching for that gun, select it again and try "Image", "Adjust", "Hue/Saturation" and move the Hue arrow to the left and right. Chances are you'll find the right assortment of colors to replace it with.
You can bring any "texture" into your Photoshop drawing, either by creating one yourself, or scanning almost anything around you. This works particularly nice when filling in areas like walls, floors, dress patterns, photographic backgrounds - etc.
You can force perspective these textures for added reality. Just drag whatever texture you scanned under your "color" layer. Or, if the character is standing behind glass or smoke - put it on the top layer above your "line" and adjust the "Opacity" on the layers palette to suit your taste.
Try blurring your background a little. This gives your foreground subject that 3-D look.
Use special filters available to Photoshop users like Alien Skin.
Add shadows. This can sometimes be achieved most effectively by making a layer "copy" of the foreground object and filling it in black with the "Preserve Transparency" option clicked on. Drag it underneath, then unclick "Preserve Transparency" and give it a nice "Gaussian Blur" by going to "Filter" and then "Blur". You can lighten it up by decreasing it's "Opacity", stretch it across a background wall, skew it - whatever works for you.