What other ways of coloring are there?

..the background isn't transparent?



I'm talking Photoshop.

Say, if you scan a picture in, and you're going to color with a layer set on 'multiply', but you scanned it in so it's not transparent, therefore you can't color it that way... Is there any way to get around that?



Or do you have to color a different way?


If it's the latter what ways could be done that work well? Just filling on the same layer doesn't look very good...


How else can you color in Photoshop?

Help?



EDIT: How do you color other than coloring with a brush on the other layer like Alex explained? Just wondering.

create a layer under the scanned layer. Set the scanned layer to multiply, paint the layer underneath, it will show up. Do not color on the layer that you set on multiply.

Yay, thank you! Just what I needed to know! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

There are a lot of Photoshop tutorials floating around. I used to have a thread on this very topic, but it got itself moderated. We should list links to Photoshop (and GIMP) tutorials. Or is there a guide somewhere?

I really should search before I respond, but I'm all lazy right now, post-lunch.