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Another Colorization


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This native American chief was originally photographed by Edward Curtis and copyrighted by him in 1900. It is now in public domain and is from the Library of Congress.
I try to think of colors that would be available in the native people's environment and they would use to decorate their various adornments. In addition to the normal colorization, I completely de saturated the original and overlaid the colored one and then decreased the opacity of the top layer to mute the colors and hopefully maintain the shading etc.
Original:
chief original.jpg
Result:
warrior chief 2 comp.jpg
 
I have a calibrated system also. This was originally a Tiff and has been highly compressed, so may be getting some shift in the colors from that process. It looks fine to me on my system.
hawkeye said:
The skin color just doesn't look right, at least on my monitor.
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Trick with skin, do several varying layers of the same colour only lighten and darken each one the soft blend edges to give realism, what you have is to purple/pink coloured and flat, the rest is nice though.
 
Thanks Paul, what blending modes would you suggest?
Paul said:
Trick with skin, do several varying layers of the same colour only lighten and darken each one the soft blend edges to give realism, what you have is to purple/pink coloured and flat, the rest is nice though.
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I really like your picture and I also have a question.

Did the picture make you use any painting or brushing tool to add colors to it or just monitor it fx. ?

Thanks.
 
I believe this particular one was mostly selection tools and colorization with Hue and Saturation adjustment layers.
Take a look at this one, totally old greyscale from 1912 to color. This one turned out nicely and again, no brush work
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...y-project-colorization-vintage-greyscale.html
nguyenthe22911;1533688244]I really like your picture and I also have a question.

Did the picture make you use any painting or brushing tool to add colors to it or just monitor it fx. ?

Thanks.[/QUOTE]
 
Nice hawkeye. That is a very famous photo depicting a Great Depression era women and her children. Your color is great. Care to share your technique.
hawkeye said:
I did this one for practice quite some time ago.
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Gotcha. That is definitely good methodology. I like it, and probably be easier than doing selections. I'll give that a go on the next one I do. Thanks!
hawkeye said:
Technique, is color layers with layer masks. Most layers are set to color blending mode, some are different modes.
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Hawkeye - great job on the colorization of the Dorthea Lange B&W!

Larry - I agree with Hawkeye. The skin colors on your Indian are way off. They are almost purple-copper. You've demonstrated much, much better color accuracy many times in the past. Something may have happened to you system. You might want to check it and/or recalibrate it. For example, for a while, there was a spate cases on some laptops where the ICC profile generated by the person's hardware calibrator just goes "pffft" and disappears.

Tom
 
Tom,
This is not a new post. It was posted 3 months ago. It got bumped up because there was a question asked about it.

Tom Mann said:
Hawkeye - great job on the colorization of the Dorthea Lange B&W!

Larry - I agree with Hawkeye. The skin colors on your Indian are way off. They are almost purple-copper. You've demonstrated much, much better color accuracy many times in the past. Something may have happened to you system. You might want to check it and/or recalibrate it. For example, for a while, there was a spate cases on some laptops where the ICC profile generated by the person's hardware calibrator just goes "pffft" and disappears.

Tom
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Here is a new one I did today using some of hawkeyes methodology, some of mine.
color fm gs.JPG
 
Warrior Chief again
warrior chief sm.jpg
 
I like this one a lot better Larry.

I am not a fan of the purple cast. I don't think of Native Americans in terms of this color - and even without that preconception, it looks weird to me. But I do certainly think the skin color is way better. The skins of his clothing might be a little more tannish as they now look a bit too yellow-green to me, but that's my only other comment and of little importance at that.
 
Yeah Clare, I think my eyes must have been off (as well as my color perception) the day I did this (back in April). Corrected this one with a Selective Color adjustment layer. Better but still not anything to get intoxicated over.
ibclare said:
I like this one a lot better Larry.

I am not a fan of the purple cast. I don't think of Native Americans in terms of this color - and even without that preconception, it looks weird to me. But I do certainly think the skin color is way better. The skins of his clothing might be a little more tannish as they now look a bit too yellow-green to me, but that's my only other comment and of little importance at that.
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