I firstly drew out the 'fine liner' part of the image using pencil, so I could adapt it ifI felt it was incorrect. When I was happy with it I went over the pencil with fine liner, and then rubbed out the pencil underneath.
I then used a light box to put this outline copy underneath a watercolour piece of paper. I used this as an outline for my water colour painting.
Once I had done this I scanned in the outline piece and separate colour piece.
I placed both images into photoshop. I put the outline image as the top layer and put it into threshold. I then; using the magic wand tool, selected all of the white and deleted it, revealing the coloured image beneath. I then lined the outline and coloured image so that they fit together correctly.
The next step was to edit the colours to match them to the original image. I changed the saturation and brightness on the colours first.
I felt that different parts of the coloured page needed to be edited differently, for example some needed more saturation than others. To do this separately, I used the either quick selection tool or the Lasso tool to select the section I want to edit. I then used 'command U' to edit the hue, saturation and lightness. Also 'command L' to edit the levels.
Sometimes this didn't work and create an exact match of colour, so i selected the section I wanted to edited, and placed a new layer on top. I then changed the colour (shift + backspace) of the selected section on this new layer. I then made this layer's opacity lower so that the original paintings tone and colours will show through.
I then did this to the rest of the page until it had a good colour match to the original.
This is the finished copy.
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