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In Lesson 2, you learned how to colourise your (black and white) pop-art image, your Layers palette should resemble the following. 
And your image will already be coloured. 
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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I will now demonstrate how to change the colours from red, flesh and green, to any colour you choose. Therefore, activate the Magic Wand Tool. 
And set the following attributes, ensuring Contiguous is unticked!
Now, left-click on the red area, and all red pixels will be surrounded by a marquee.
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From the foot of the Layers palette, click the following Create a new fill or adjustment layer icon.
And choose Hue/Saturation. In the subsequent Hue/Saturation dialogue box, move the Saturation slider to a colour you like. This changes the selected red pixels, accordingly.
Tip
Double-click the Hue/Saturation layer’s name, and rename it Background.
 
Tip
Clicking the following Layer Thumbnail displays the Hue/Saturation
dialogue, enabling you to change the colours at any time. 
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After you have changed the red colour, remove the marquee, (Select then Deselect). Now, (with the Magic Wand), click to surround the skin tone area. Repeat Chapter 2 and apply a new Hue/Saturation layer. Change the skin tone with the Hue/Saturation slider, exactly as described in Chapter 2 . Then rename the layer, Skin.
 
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Isolate the dress with a marquee.
And apply a new Hue/Saturation layer, and change the dress’s colour. Rename the layer, Dress, then remove the marquee - exactly as explained in Chapter 2.
 
Congratulations, you have changed your pop-art colours, and your image is complete. When you are completely satisfied with your work, from the top menu choose Layer then choose Flatten Image.
Or left-click the following icon from the Layers palette. 
And choose Flatten Image from the drop-down menu.
 
Your pop-art is complete and ready to save! If you would like to create a
four-image grid, then link for Pop-art Lesson 4 - Create Pop-art Grids Tutorial Here!
Tip
Prior to flattening the layers, If you save your image as a PSD file, the layers will remain intact, this means you can open the file whenever you wish, and adjust the Hue and Saturation.
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