Skillfully use Photoshop channel to color the hand-painted picture

In the work will often use to download the pictures on the internet, how to color these pictures clearly displayed to your design. Especially let it be processed can be printed pictures. Please look at the comparison of the two charts below.

Do you feel the first cute little angel color more conspicuous, more beautiful?

So here we go to Photoshop to see.

Open the little angel's Picture:

Place the PSD file in the new 350 or so pixel.

1. Use the Photoshop Pen tool to pull out the main diagram, or use the Magic Wand tool, of course, to be precise or use the pen tool. The first thing to convert the file into CMYK format. Because the color of the diagram here is changed according to CMYK.

2. Change the hair section first. It is mainly golden yellow, by the M and y two colors, so we have to remove more C and K, with the pen tool to select the part of the hair.

To become a constituency, Ctrl+enter, to feather a little. That would not seem so blunt. I am here feather 1.

Then came the channel C and K: