Colorization++ - Potatoe's

[Terrapin Bound]

Here's the unsoftened edge, (bright color for clarity, disregard where it bleeds on to the arm, the focus is the sleeve/sack blend)


Screen caps are from PaintShop Pro

Use the soften/blur tool around all the edges. Where the rope has been masked, use the tool on the mask layer.


One last touch, I duplicated the potato bag color layer and set it to burn.
This adds a lot of contrast and depth. Should also be used for woodgrain, sand, rubber tires, etc.
It usually takes very low layer opacity to do the trick (5-10%), but here the full 100% is shown.



Another effective tips is "Blend If". When used, it would allow the black dots on his shirt to show through.
But that's another tutorial...