This document provides tips for overlaying color onto black and white cartoons using textures and gradients in Photoshop. It recommends using a high resolution black and white cartoon as the base layer, coloring that layer underneath a color image texture layer, and selecting areas on the cartoon to fill with gradients or textures. The techniques described include using the wand tool to select areas, and gradient and texture fills to add color in a creative way. It concludes with an assessment rubric focusing on layout, creativity, and specific Photoshop techniques like gradients, textures, and selection tools.

1. Overlay techniques
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2. Colour in cartoons

3. Content
B/W cartoon
Colour image
Use textures

4. Tips
B/W cartoon
Textures
Colour gradients
Background color
Colour image
Use textures

5. Photoshop Skills
• Create A4 Landscape or Portrait
• Use Hi Res Black + white Cartoon Image
• Remove white (wand tool)
• Colour cartoon in layer underneath
• Use wand to select areas
• Use gradients to colour
• Use fill patterns to create textures

6. Assessment
• Layout
• Creativity
• Photoshop Techniques
• Gradient fills
• Texture fills
• Selection/wand

7. (c) Greg Walker 2012