I'm not sure how easy this is with a mouse to do, I use a tablet and really recommend it for this.The larger the better. Basically, I created a new layer for each color, then made a selection around the area I wanted and filled it in, then I used the eraser to clean up the edges.

My color selections were random in the area I wanted. First I chose a color close to what I wanted and then set the opacity close to what I needed and then adjusted the hue/saturation until I was satisfied.

I always used a small soft brush,1 to 25 pixels in diameter depending where I was working with spacing set @2, for the brush and eraser.

For the pearls I tried I few different things but what seemed to work best for me was adding a layer just above the original and filling it with white, mode normal, and lowering the opacity to around 10 - 20 and then selecting a brush just a hair smaller then each pearl and erasing it from the duplicated original layers above by just clicking once or twice on each one.

For the whites of the eyes I copy pasted a selection of the eyes and erased eveything but the whites and adjusted the levels till it still looked natural but lighter.

The gown I just made a duplicate layer of the gown, desaturated it and adjusted the levels to brighten it then erased anything not gown. I put the hair color layer above this since strands of hair were above her headpiece.

Well actully all the color layers were above all the main layers. Guess that goes without saying though.

And basically a lot of fiddling and playing around learning while I went. And by the time I was done I had a 229MB file with 23 layers to be proud of.

Anyhow, not ramble forever and bore ya'll to tears, hope this helps those who asked..

Thanks.. :) Doug

Wow - Doug, many thanks mate. This is more than good, and many thanks for all of the effort you've put into explaining this and the colour chart. If this is your definition of boring us to tears, make me cry....harder.... harder.... he he he (",)