Tsunade Colorization

Hey guys, this is my first attempt at a colorization. It was made on my ghetto Photoshop 5.5. I am new to Photoshop, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...unadecolor.jpg

pretty good for a first try, altho the quality of the image is low

nice, i like the background, try adding more shadows, itll look way better if you do
i think the quality is suppose to be like that

but isnt this supposed to be posted in the naruto fan art section, most likely thisll get locked by the mods

I like it with the lower image quality, but it seems like something is missing in the background to me, but what do I know, I am a new at this stuff.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

as for the image quality - it looked was better in .png than it does in .jpg. any ideas on how to fix that? again, I am new to all of this.
glad you like the background - funny, it took me about 2 minutes.
are there any photoshop-gurus out there who can give me some ideas?
as i am sure you can tell, I don't know how to use alot of the more advanced methods, yet.
any ideas would be reatly appreciated.
thanks!

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Originally posted by: InnerSakuraChan
as for the image quality - it looked was better in .png than it does in .jpg. any ideas on how to fix that? again, I am new to all of this.
glad you like the background - funny, it took me about 2 minutes.
are there any photoshop-gurus out there who can give me some ideas?
as i am sure you can tell, I don't know how to use alot of the more advanced methods, yet.
any ideas would be reatly appreciated.
thanks!

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Hmm advice. Spend more than 2 minutes on a piece of art before posting it. Layers are your friend. Reading a few PS tutorials wouldn't be a bad start either.

Here is one tutorial to start with. It's on a final fantasy fanart site. Just go through it page by page and it should teach you alot of basics and some good coloring techniques.
http://www.ffartwork.com/tutorials/maiji/00.html