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Step 6: Eventually you finish.   You're probably a withering old person by now, but hey its worth it... maybe... at least people will say its pretty when you are done, yes?    You now want to duplicate your layer, so right click your hair layer and select duplicate to copy it.   See, cloning is possible!

Step 7: Now to do something crazy. With your duplicated layer selected, choose Edit > Fill from the menu and fill your layer with white.  Of course, before you do this you really should make sure that 'preserve transparency' is still turned on.  ;)      Once you have done this, change the layer blending mode to multiply.  The white should vanish.

Step 8: Using the same shade color as before and a very large brush, add a little more shadow to your picture.  Mouse users, don't worry about fade... just set your brush transparency to 50% - it should work almost the same.   The picture on the right is what it should look like.  The one below is just to show you where the shadows should be placed.

Step 9: And finally we are onto the highlights!   Create a new transparent layer on top of the others and set the layer blending mode to linear dodge.  With a smaller brush and the lighter color for the hair, place strokes where the light should be hitting the hair.  This are usually places where hair curves outwards, much in the same way as shadows fill areas where the hair curves inwards.   Get it?  Hope so!    Again, the picture on the left shows what it should look like, and the right side shows where I added the color.

Step 10: Now create a new linear dodge layer and start applying fine highlights. Follow where you placed the first layer of fine highlights with lots of small jagged ones, as clearly shown in the image on the left.  Once this is done, duplicate the layer and go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to apply a blur that edges out the harshness of the final highlights.  The image below shows where I put the highlights...

And that's it! I hope this helps someone... coz it took me a long time to make!!! THANK YOU!

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Quote from exoranger;56342: ---I mean everytime I go to put in a colour...It's only black white or grey. No matter what colour/swatche I choose. So I'd choose yellow...I go to fill or paint...And it appeards as black white or grey.

1. Check that the Color Mode of your image is RGB, not Grayscale.

2. Check your Channels Palette - make sure that the RGB channel is selected (which automatically selects all the channels). If you only have one channel selected (Red, Green or Blue) you will only be able to fill or paint in black, white or grey.

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Quote from Tamlin;56340: Layer > New > Layer or press Shift+Ctrl+N If you mean Step 7 in the tutorial,you aren't filling a channel, you're filling a layer. Make sure you have the relevant layer selected in the Layers Palette.

---I mean everytime I go to put in a colour...It's only black white or grey. No matter what colour/swatche I choose. So I'd choose yellow...I go to fill or paint...And it appeards as black white or grey.

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Quote from exoranger;56337: How would I make the hair it's own layer.

Layer > New > Layer
or press Shift+Ctrl+N

Quote from exoranger;56338: --I would also like to add, how do you fill? When I fill it always comes out in gray. The only channel is gray. How would I be able to create a new channel?

If you mean Step 7 in the tutorial,you aren't filling a channel, you're filling a layer. Make sure you have the relevant layer selected in the Layers Palette.

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Quote from exoranger;56337: How would I make the hair it's own layer.

--I would also like to add, how do you fill? When I fill it always comes out in gray. The only channel is gray. How would I be able to create a new channel?

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How would I make the hair it's own layer.

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