Well, seeing as y'all asked, here it is! You don't have to credit or anything if you use this colouring on your own graphic. All that I ask is you don't enter it into the Daemon Challenge. ;)

1. My canvas size is 500x500px. The first thing that I did was to add a massively oversize picture of my grey parrot, and then add a Radial Zoom Blur of 50px.

2. Next I added the larger parrot, setting the layer to Lighten. Then just Layer Mask away the parts you don't want – I left a ring of blue sky around the edges of the parrot to add colour – and add a 3px Gaussian Blur to the Layer Mask to finish.

3. At this point I added my tiny text (stock of a book page, resized, inverted, 50% Colour Dodge) and also my miniature parrot on Soft Light 100%. I also added my second, middle-sized parrot – a smaller, flipped copy of the first.

4. Add a handwriting texture on 30% Colour Dodge – I used Sanami's. Then make a new lyer and paste in an image of a grey moon, and Radial Zoom Blur at 50px. Set this layer to Hard Light 30%. Add layers of clouds along the bottom (my stocks are from Flickr).

5. Stamp visible in a new layer, add a 50px Radial Zoom Blur and use a big soft black spot (about 350px) in the middle of the Layer Mask, where the focal point is.

6. Add a fill layer of #80C79A on Colour Burn 40%, and then a #430C62 fill layer on Lighten 50%. The add the purple>orange>green default Photoshop Gradient Map on Soft Light 100%.

7. Selective colour ...
REDS
YELLOWS +100 –100 –100 +100
GREENS
CYANS +100 –25 –100 +15
BLUES +100 –25 –100 +15
MAGENTAS
WHITES +100 –100 +100 –75
NEUTRALS –7 –7 –7 +7
BLACKS –15 +7 +7 –15

8. Brightness/Contrast on +25 +15. Black Layer Mask, 350px soft white spot at focal point. Duplicate, invert Layer Mask, change Brightness/Contrast settings to –50 –50. Now for a Color Balance layer on Lighten 50% ...

SHADOWS +7 +7 +7
MIDTONES +25 –7 –15
HIGHLIGHTS –25 –15 –7

9. Channel Mixer layer ...

RED +106 +8 –2 0
GREEN –4 +106 0 –2
BLUE +2 +2 +90 +2

10. Hue/Saturation. Master 0 +15 +7. Now fill a new layer with black, Soft Light 30%, and cut out the middle with a 20px feathered Elliptical Marquee (hold Shift for a perfect circle, depending on your canvas dimensions).

11. Add text! Now add a stock image of whatever you want as long as there's lots of different colours in it. An image of a bubble would be good, where you can see all the colours. Add a #80C79A>#FFFFFF Gradient Map layer to this, change the image itself to Soft Light and add a 350px soft black spot on your Layer Mask at your focal point.

12. Add a black scratch texture on 80% and Layer Mask out a soft spot at your focal point.

ALL DONE!

Saffy! *huggles* I LOVE you for doing this.
So, you know I had to try it.
My result:


Lol. I didn't follow the coloring and a skipped a lot of steps and I added my own little touches, but I figured I'd post it anyways 'cause it was, well... inspired by your tut. And I didn't want you going into my gallery and seeing it and thinking, 'That witch is stealing my ideas. gfguiasdgfcu!' So, yea.
Thank you!

ZOMG.
You made the Aether tut..
-MASSIVESQUEAL-
I;m gonna try this the second I can
but the tut looks amazing anyways;]
<3!
^^btw, thats awesome Twinker!

Wonderful! I love tutorials. When I saw your Aether entry on the daemon challenge, it was so jaw-dropping that I seriously didn't even want to enter one! Beautiful stuff.

Great tut Saffron! Thanks for posting this.

I made this quite a while back, but forgot to post xD Thanks so much for this tut! I learned a lot (:

Yay, glad you liked it!
The stocks you used are absolutely stunning. :)

I decided to make this using your Tut as kind of a 'guide'! Thanks again for sharing your BAMF-y skills :)

You're quite welcome. :)

I'm new over here and I'm really shocked because of your tutorials, everything over here is simply great. I tried to made some design using your tut. It was difficult for me to do it because I had never used masks. But well, finally I did this...



Well, thanks a lot for posting this. =D

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the tut.

Your piece looks really great, nice placement & text! :)