Color lines in Photoshop CS4 artwork

Hello.
This is the image I want to color.

If you click the Color patch in the Options bar you can choose your colour from the Picker.
(I'm not sure what you mean with the stripes.)
Note: You need to change in Image > Mode from the indexed colour of the GIF to RGB to do this!
Make a new layer for each colour.

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