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Colorize B&W photo of negro and other dark skinned individuals (was: Colour me in)


Paul

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Usually it's a white family that gets the recoloured treatment, let's see how good you are at recolouring a coloured family in.

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re: Colorize B&W photo of negro and other dark skinned individuals (was: Colour me in)

Let's see how many of the talkers can walk for real, nice job Eggy.
 

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re: Colorize B&W photo of negro and other dark skinned individuals (was: Colour me in)

Single brown shade used Chris or several variants with the skin tones?
 
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re: Colorize B&W photo of negro and other dark skinned individuals (was: Colour me in)

My fast method here was to select the skintones and put it on a new layer.
A new layer for the dress, the suits, the background wall.
On every layer i used the curves to get the desired colors.
The top layer (burn) is filled with 50%grey, set on linear light for additional modulation of the skintones. Just paint with brown color and a soft brush with opacity 3.

Bildschirmfoto 2015-07-07 um 19.06.25.jpg
 
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ElizabethM

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re: Colorize B&W photo of negro and other dark skinned individuals (was: Colour me in)

The JPEG artifects (am I using the term correctly?) is all sorts of wack in this image, tried to get out as much as I can. But overall may I present: My first attempt at colorisation. :)

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re: Colorize B&W photo of negro and other dark skinned individuals (was: Colour me in)

For your first attempt you did a pretty fine job. :thumbsup:
 
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ElizabethM

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re: Colorize B&W photo of negro and other dark skinned individuals (was: Colour me in)

Whooo! Thank you gedstar! :D Your comment just made my day!
 
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re: Colorize B&W photo of negro and other dark skinned individuals (was: Colour me in)

This is really a very good result Elizabeth...congrats!
 

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Well done you, Elizabeth:giggle:
 

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