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I think Adobe photoshop is great for coloring any object either a black and white photo or scatch .Here is a easy and simple method to color a manga or anime or cartoon in photoshop .

First import image in photoshop

Then select magic wand tool in left tool bar
Then select any part of image you want to color e.g. face .(select all face parts by pressing shift and also save every selection so that you can load it any time )
After this select brush (airbrush with feathered edges)
choose a proper color for face
Set color blending mode multiply then color it
Now we select hairs by doing this (set wand tool tolerance 100 so that it it can select most pixels )
Now again select airbrush with diameter more than 160 and blending mode multiply and color hairs with your desired style .
Now see the image you will find some white pixels uncolored .To color these pixels select airbrush and set diameter 3 or 4 and zoom the image and color these white dots without making a selection.
Now color shirt with this method .

Yes we can color any existing image in illustrator but how because live paint bucket is just working on illustrator objects and not on any outer exported object.Yes it is true but it is also true that we can convert any image to illustrator object and we can color image with live paint bucket .Suppose you have created a pencile scatch on paper and you have scanned it in pc and you want to color it with illustrator but when you open this image in illsutrator and try to color with live paint bucket you find urself unable to do this .

Now I will tell you step by step how to make image editable for illustrator .
Open Sdobe illsutrator Cs4 and import any image like this .

Now select selection tool by mouse or by pressing “V” with keyboard .
Then click over the image anywhere ,you will see the option of live trace below the top option bar .

Select the simple trace from the drop down menu ,your image will be converted to illustrator object but do not stop here and carry on
Now select the newly appeared option expand by doing this you can edit nodes of images .

Now select paint bucket from left tool bar and click over image to convert it into live paint group and ignore the warning .

You will find that you can color different parts of image with paint bucket and it will not effect the lines color such as in corel painter and photoshop.
To choose a proper color select color from color guide from right tool window .
You can cutomize your live paint bucket by editing live paint options from object >live paint >gap options

Finally we can get a colored image like this

This image also include photoshop effects such as dodge and paint brushes.

I will write full series on these effects .