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By using this tutorial you will turn a black and white image into a fully coloured image. I am not going to show you a picture to do, as this tutorial is best suited for you to just do step-by-step with your own image.

1. Add a new layer and fill it with #c69c6d and set it to color.
2. Duplicate that layer and set it to soft light.
3. Flatten all layers (merge all).
4. Adjust >> color balance >> color balance, and use these settings: Cyan/Red: 0 Magenta/Green: -31 Yellow/Blue: 0
5. Press ok.
6. Select the freehand selection tool and set the feather to 1.
7. Select the whites around the eyes and the teeth.
8. Keep the selections active and create a new raster layer.
9. Using the flood fill tool, fill the selections with #ffffff.
10. Adjust >> Hue and Saturation >> Hue/Saturation/Lightness. Tick colourize and press ok.
11. Lighten the opacity of the layer until it is at appropriate colour for the whites of the eyes.
12. Now click back on the background layer.
13. Select the eyes (not the whites just the middle) with the freehand selection tool.
14. Create a new raster layer, and choose a colour you wish to use for the eyes and fill the selection.
15. Right click on the layer >> properties >> Softlight >> press ok.
16. Lighten the opacity to an appropriate colour, then select the burn tool with the size of 100, range midtones and exposure 45%.
17. Click the eye 3 times.
18. Use the same settings with the dodge tool and click twice.
19. Using the freehand selection tool, select the lip with a feather of 2.
20. Subtract from the lips anything that you do not want coloured.
21. Got to Adjust >> Colour Balance >> Colour Balance. Play with the colours until you get the colour you wish to have.
22. Using the freehand selection tool, roughly outline the hair (don't select right to the roots of the haird, select slightly before).
23. Go to Adjust >> color balance >> color balance, and play with the setting suntil you reach your desired hair colour.
24. Using the freehand selection tool, select the parts you wish to erase from the hair.
25. Selection >> Modify >> Feather >> set to around 20 pixels (best to trial and error) >> press ok >> hit delete key as many times until desireable.
26. Doing eyes shadow is simple, just select the area, and go to Adjust >> color balance >> color balance, and play with the settings.
27. Make a new layer and set the foreground colour to the colour you wish to have for the cheek bones.
28. Select a size 65 paintbrush and paint the blush on her cheekbones.
29. It looks bad right? Good. Go to Adjust >> blur >> Gaussian blur and make it about 60.5.
30. Make the opacity of that layer to an amount that looks desireable.
31. If there is clothing, simply use the freehand selection tool, select the clothing, go to Adjust >> color balance >> color balance, and play with the settings until you reach your desired colour.
32. Merge all layers and sharpen once.
33. Add a 10px black border and your done!
34. You can resize the image if you would like.