June 06 Contest Discussion

[Doug Colwell]

Hi Butch. I didn't keep track, but I'm guessing I spent 3 or 4 hours. I'm probably slower than most, but I watch TV while I work. It also takes me longer to type colourize.

[ajava]

Your entry is most excellent! Very nice job! I gave up after about 8 hours and the realization that I had only managed to colorize a fern.

[cazubi]

It took me about 4 hour all together,but spread out over a few days. I spent about an hour or so restoring the photo and then the rest of the time
"painting" the color on many layers. There were so many things to color that it really was a challenge to finish it.

Cathy

[Northernshadow]

Butch, I worked on mine so much I think I'm going through withdrawl.

I have only done one other colorization and wasn't happy with what I did so this was a major learning experience. LOTS of experimentation, often not even saving when I didn't like it. My work flow was very erratic,jumped around all over the place and halfway thru the colorization process I found myself redoing the restoration on the B/W background...

[Daviskw]

Sherry

I know what you mean by withdrawal… I liked doing it, very interesting and educational. I see all the experts say you should have a plan before you start… Not me… just jump in and improvise on the fly and hope for the best. Like you I was moving layers up and down to try and make it easy. I actually had to NAME layers…

Butch

[TwinbNJ]

Originally Posted by Daviskw

Hello all

This may have already been discussed, I was wondering how long it took for you to complete your colorization.

I worked a good solid 2 1/2 hours on mine and my fingers were killing me. At the end I found myself bent over my keyboard with my nose 2 inches from the screen.

Butch

I spent 2-3 days on and off total hours- maybe 5?

[TwinbNJ]

koodos to all that have entered
This was a very difficult challange!

[chrishoggy]

I missed the deadline, as I've been busy working on a few net projects.
Did this in about 1 hour using colour replacement brush only, and lots of colour adjustments
Fixed corners by flipping image and cloning over blanks areas.

[soleah]

Too bad you missed the deadline, Chris. I wish I could do it as fast as you do, took you only an hour. And a great job both on restoration and colorization.

Thanks Ajava. You are very kind

I failed to mention that I also spent an inordinate amount of time staring at my entry.

Lucky, I already have a work flow on the restoration. Otherwise, the actual work would have taken longer.

[chrishoggy]

To be honest, the quality of the high res version of mine isn't good. But when you are reducing the size to 750x750, it doesn't really matter rough colouring on a large image looks OK when reduced down. As does rough cloning. As you will see below, the cloned area looks totally out of place full size and a bit of a mess as far as colours go

[T Paul]

Voting is now open ...

Makeovermagic has been kind enough to once again create a photo album for easier viewing...

Click here

[chrishoggy]

Just like to point out that the album is resizing the images to 600x600 and may be loosing some detail from the entries. File sizes seem to be changing too? Might be better going to original entries until that is fixed

[makeovermagic]

hi chris,

thanks for pointing that out -- it was an auto resizing done within jalbum -- i am fixing to correct size -- will be up in a few minutes.

Marsha

[chrishoggy]

It's up but it's resized the 600x600 pics to 750x750. You need to set it to link to originals so they don't resize, and rebuild all

[Peter S]

Thanks for the Album, but the colours don,t look right either, at least on my screen anyway???? maybe its the resampling gone astray???