Whenever I finish a digital painting, I like to do a few last-minute touch-ups and fixes in Photoshop. You can resize your image, adjust colors, etc. We're just going to do a few minor tweaks to our image now that the painting is finished.

Open up Photoshop and open the PSD file that you saved in Painter.

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Sometimes it's nice to add a few bright sharp highlights to some areas, like a wet nose, hair, or eyes. Select the Dodge tool and make sure a hard-edge brush is selected and that "Range" is set to "Highlights."

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Select the Color layer (not shading layer) which you wish to add highlights to and color with the dodge tool as if you would with the paintbrush. You'll notice the area you color in is brightened.

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Do this in any areas you like. For this image, I added highlights to the nose, tongue, did a few strands of highlighted chest fur and brightened the light part of the iris.

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Last, the final highlighted touch: the shine in the eye! For this you'll need to make a new layer, above everything else. We want this light to be a nice pure white, unfettered by any of our shading. Simply use the paintbrush tool and paint a solid white highlight.

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And this is why we put all that effort into getting our lines onto a separate transparent layer before. Make sure you are on the Lines layer and that the transparency is locked.

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Pick a color that is most prominent in your image. This will save you some time. I chose the main fur color. Now pick a much darker version of this color. It should be even darker than the deepest shadows. Go to Edit>Fill and fill the whole Lines layer with this color. Since transparency is locked, only the lines are filled in.

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Now, pick other outline colors for each area and carefully paint in these outlines using the paintbrush tool.

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In areas where you want two line colors to blend smoothly together, you can use the blur tool.

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Voila! Colored outlines!

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You have now completed the entire digital painting series! Congratulations!

You can now flatten your image. You may want to add some additional last-minute touch-ups to the image like a signature.

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Or some texture or grain (Filter>Noise>Add Noise or Filter>Texture>Texturizer).

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Before you upload it anywhere, resize it to something more web-friendly (Image>Image Size). Make sure you save your final image at a high quality format of your choice (I suggest a JPG set to 12 quality or a PNG). I also recommend you keep an unflattened, unresized copy of the PSD file in case you ever need it.

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