Next Steps?

[Piotr Jasielski]

Hey Piotr, awesome advice. I hope you could clarify how the overlay layer method works?

Does that mean, Slap on an overlay layer on top of everything, paint with more intense color of your liking on top of where the colors look desaturated?

If that's the case, what's the difference of that between that and just painting on top of it on a normal layer and just choosing a more saturated version of the same hue?

It might be a bit hard to explain with words alone, but I think you got it right (more or less). The basic difference is that overlay (and other light layers) can give you more vibrant color variations because the blending is dependent on what is underneath - it will react differently to dark tone or light tone. you can try experimenting with differnet variations and see the results. It's pretty good with midtones and especially useful for that under skin red glow at the borders of shadow and light.

Of course you can paint with just normal layer but it might get you differnet results and you have to know exactly what color you wnat to use, while with overlay you can easily adjust the opacity.