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[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by capnhowdy

Excellent 'shop job, nutkin! What program do you use?

I'm using photoshop CS3.
I make a few copy layers, then lighten the entire top layer in levels, then colorize everything. I then erase everything but the hair, allowing the original colors of the layer below to show through. I keep the extra layers hidden as insurance. I then flatten the visible layers and use adjustment layers to tweak the hue, saturation and color balance. That was a quick one, about 10-15 minutes.

Clouds was really easy since her hair was already pretty light I only had to use an airbrush with transparent color.