#detectivepleasant

The way I do it is to lasso/select the part you want to colour, create a new fill layer to go in the selection and colour it, then fiddle with the blend options (overlay, multiply etc.) and opacity until it looks right.

They'd been all set to win gold. And then he fell, and they took him away without waiting for her to reach the ambulance before they left- she wasn't family, not a priority. She didn't speak Russian, and the paramedic who she'd tried to flag down didn't speak English, and nobody was telling her anything which was the worst part of it. All anyone would say was that he was in the hospital, an injury to his back. But she could tell that it was something much worse than that. There were people who knew the full extent of what was going on and they looked at her as if she were too fragile to know the truth. Maybe she was.

She had resigned herself to the practice rink, working on her already-perfect salchows in an attempt to forget about how wrong it felt to be on the ice alone, when his brother called her name from the side of the rink.