Definitely a "cooperative" work. The original image is by VIK9740. She and I had discussed the possibility of coloring one of her sketches, and this is the result. Reading from top left to right... 1. original image 2. Adobe Deluxe hand-tint of major 'brown' objects. Adobe proved to be too tricky on an image this size, so . . . 3. Corel PP9. Very transparent painting of barns, sky, and snow. Some work on the sky using the brush setting of the smudge tool. It seems to be more 'gentle' than the usual setting but can be tricky to control. I believe I used a very light '3D emboss' here as well. 4. Used a very light 'impressionist' filter to smudge the colors around a bit. Decided that I'd lost too much detail, but that I liked the effect. 5. Layers to the rescue! (Thanks, Cynlee!) A copy of image 3 was pasted over image 4! However, the image 3 layer was set to a transparency of about 35. We can see the smudginess of the impressionist filter but still have some of the clarity of the original lines of the original drawing. 6. Added a rectangular vignette to frame it. Not saying ANY of this was necessary or is an improvement on the original (VIK would clobber me!), but it was fun. I 'found' this coloring technique fooling with scans of BW images from a Frazetta book. (Just wondering how 'that' would look with some color added, etc.) The only think I'll add is that there is some utility in using several applications for this tinting. The tool in Adobe is pretty forgiving but also inflexible. You select a color and it is applied uniformly with no gradation of color except where the underlying BW image adds some shading. The BW is never completely covered. This was a major reason I used that app for the nekkid ladies jewelry, etc. The finer shades are hard to find, and getting back to the original is very difficult. Color is picked from a color spectrum tool, not from a paint box. Using PP9 with a paint/airbrush tool set to very transparent (90 and more) can achieve the same result. However, it is trickier to control and will, repeat will, cover the underlying image if the color goes on too heavy. Soooo, getting back to the ladies as an example, this was used to add some shadow to what was sometimes too uniform a shaded color scheme. For example, the red in seat. If you try this, be prepared to back up and start over.... Save often. Save different versions to back up to. Be patient. Especial thanks to VIK for letting me mess with one of her drawings. Best wishes to all; and don't be afraid to experiemnt... on copies of 'the original!' ;-) Enjoy; thanks for viewing.