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RAINER1
861 days ago
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B&W to Color
Can an old black and white photo be colored with the filters as done in the artical by (Photojojo)?
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tjfbryant
860 days ago
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I don't believe so. I believe the Image needs to have original RGB properties to work. a B and W does not.
I have to paint by hand the image itself.
I use GIMP 2
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ben-s
859 days ago
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You can't automatically convert a mono image to colour, but you can hand colour it, as tjfbryant suggested.
In the days of black and white prints, hand colouring was done on the print itself, typically using water based dyes.
You can do it in most image editing software.
EDIT: if you're referring to the "epic color mashup" article, then you could scan in a series of mono negs or prints and do the process detailed in the article on them, but the background wouldn't be in colour.
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tufteach
859 days ago
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I have "colorized" several old B&W images in photoshop. You can search for a tutorial for whatever software you are using. Here are examples... The originals were taken over 6o and 80 years ago.
Retouched Mom and Dad by tufteach, on Flickr
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Great Beyo
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122 days ago
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I found a book at the library the other day that talked of colorizing photos by hand, using Marshell's Photo Oils - transparent paint for just this purpose. I've got three done so far, and I'm going to try a few more as soon as work calms down a touch. Here's the first one:
Day 360/365 - Colorized Christmas Market by Great Beyond, on Flickr
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superdewa
119 days ago
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I like the artsy unrealistic look with these. I think you've got something here.
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Great Beyo
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116 days ago
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Here we go, the last of my 365, 2012 edition and the last of my hand tinted photos!
Day 366/365 - Colorized New Years by Great Beyond, on Flickr
It's a little heavy handed because this was the very first one I did of the batch and I had no idea how to control the oils. While I still don't (and I need to get another batch to try sometime soon here), I did get better as time rolled on. Also, a night shot is WAY tougher than a day shot. Much harder to keep in the lines.
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Great Beyo
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116 days ago
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So Tuff just asked this over on flicker, and I thought it was worthy of repeating here:
Tony, what size photos do you use? I'm thinking of doing this. I really like your results. Any good pointers?
think I printed them at 8x5? That sounds right. I wanted something large enough that I could work with, but not too overwhelming. As far as pointers, I've only done the three, so I'm still feeling my way around - but here's what I would do differently next time.
* No night shots
Perhaps later, but two of the three I did were night (figuring that I would have less to worry about coloring), but staying in the lines is tough and the color doesn't look as good on black as I'd like.
* Less is more
When I started out (with this one), I was using a really heavy hand. By the time I got to the third one, I was still using way too heavy a hand, but I had gotten better. So whatever you think you should be applying? That's probably twice as much as you need to.
* Don't get hung up on perfection.
I got about half way through this one, looked at the big thick strokes of purple, and my heart just went out of it. This was not turning out as I'd hoped, I thought. Putting it aside and working on the Pike Place Market one - well, it turned out better, but not quite right. By the time I got to the third one, I had reached my zen point of "Ah, who cares - just go for broke".
While it was nowhere realistic, I liked it better than the other two. Then I came back to this one and just threw abandon to the wind - and I felt much better about doing it.
* Simple pictures!
I think next time I'll do really simple shots, portraits against a plain wall, landscapes with lots of blue water, green trees and blue sky. Something like the University Village (the one with the lady in the day) was too busy, too many details to worry about.
* Get everything ready BEFORE you paint
So I went into this first batch half assed. The toothpicks with cotton on the end that I used for applying the paints? I didn't have nearly enough before hand, and so I'm having to roll them on the fly, paint all over my fingers. Next time I'm having dozens ready before I apply paint one!
* Remember the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst". While I'm still a rank novice, I can tell that the only way to get better is practice, practice, practice. And more practice. It's gonna be a long road to mastery, so I'm going to try and not be too self-critical of anything.
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superdewa
116 days ago
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Thanks, GB!
What's next? You always come up with interesting projects.
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Great Beyo
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115 days ago
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What's next? No idea - although I'd like to try my hand at colorization a bit more. But I never set out to go "Oh, I should do this!" - it's always stuff that I happen to fall into, like this random book at the library. I might have to go back and check out that book again, since I pretty much stopped at Chapter One (the hand tinting section) and see if there's anything else to do.
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superdewa
114 days ago
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I've always wondered why you don't develop your own black & white film (to scan yourself -- no need for a darkroom). I haven't fully gotten there myself yet, but it seems to me like something you would enjoy. This is the tutorial I've been using. I stopped at getting my film wound onto the spools and into the tank and haven't gone further -- yet.
http://www.rocktheshotforum.com/2012/06 … -own-film/
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Great Beyo
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114 days ago
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Pretty much it boils down to being deathly afraid of screwing something up and blowing not just a roll of film, an entire roll of pictures. I find the piece of mind of handing it to a man who puts it in a machine soothing. Besides, I've been shooting E6, which I hear is a royal pain to develop by hand.
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