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Phillip Whitt Junior Member Registered: February 2003 Location: Columbus,GA Posts: 2 users gallery	I couldn't tell by looking at the original if it might have been a Kodacolor print that lost its colors, so I thought I try a color version. 1. I discarded the red and blue channels, keeping the green one. 2. Duplicated the background layer. 3. Created a levels adjustment layer, set the blending mode to hard light. 4. Moved the highlight and shadow sliders toward the middle of the histogram, where the image information formed a "hill" 5. Created a soft light layer, filled with 50% gray, and used the paint brush (black) to darken the washed out area in the grass. 6. Selected some of the grass on the right to replace the detail on the left. 7.Smoothed the girl's skin 8. Cleaned up blemishes with clone stamp tool 9. Created a color fill layer for each item to colorized and just experimented with opacity setting to achieve the best results.
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Mars
Junior Member

Registered: June 2004
Location: Germany
Posts: 11

6/25/2004 3:33am

Hi Phillip, an excellent job! I'm still learning colourising b/w pictures and haven't got that far yet. The most difficulties I have with skin colours. In your picture I like particularly the brown cow on the left. :-)
Martin

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Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

6/25/2004 7:18am

Great work Phillip,

Colorizing really brought life to this photo.
Thanks to the rich colors Mom and Bary stand out in the center of the photo.
I like the way you handled the top of Mom's dress.
So much better than having all the dress the same color.

Matt

Phillip Whitt
Junior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: Columbus,GA
Posts: 2

6/25/2004 10:47am

Thanks for your comments-this was indeed a challenge! Mars, colorizing really does take practice, but it's really worth learning. Believe me, I still am.

And thanks, Matt-it's a compliment coming from you because all of your work is AWESOME!

Marc

Junior Member

Registered: January 2004
Location: Leverkusen, Germany
Posts: 8

6/25/2004 1:29pm

Excellent work! Much more contrast between girl and background, a really pleasant view.

bigheadjed
Junior Member

Registered: April 2004
Posts: 3

6/25/2004 1:35pm

That’s great. I didn’t think to colorize mine. What a huge difference it makes. Really helps the foreground pop. How much time did you spend on it?

steve glomski

Junior Member

Registered: June 2004
Location: Chester UK

6/25/2004 2:15pm

Wow! brilliant,nothing more to say mate.I would like to try make some color too.Thanks for description.

vijayan

Member

Registered: January 2003
Location: Trivandrum, India
Posts: 73

6/26/2004 2:48am

Excellent work, good skills..
one thing I would say, that the colour of mom's dress can be reduced a bit and the ground also. never mind, these things don't affect your efforts or your skills.. a Big hand....

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Thanks,

Vijayan
vijayan@nova-concepts.com

Phillip Whitt
Junior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: Columbus,GA
Posts: 2

6/26/2004 10:18am

Thanks, everyone for your kind comments. I spent about 2 (?) hours on it total.
Vijayan, I thought the same thing after I submitted it,because the right amount of color saturation is critical in colorizing. It's easy to make colors too intense-I agree, they could be a slighty less intense.

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

6/26/2004 12:18pm

The colorizing really helps to lessen the lost focus of girl and dog - very nice work Phillip!

JohnHarris
Junior Member

Registered: July 2004
Posts: 1

7/30/2004 5:47pm

Phillip,
Great Effort! I truly appreciate your desire to keep the integrity of the original scene intact. Your use of color is good. The visibility of the duplicated grass in the lower left quadrant can be minimized by cloning out the most apparent areas. A brush with less feather, or the use of a spatter style brush will help reduce some of the softness in cloned areas. And remember to check your actual color values before applying them ( the cows on the right are very magenta/blue). Keep up the great work!

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