Critiques - - Could this be the best?

toe · #1 06-05-2007, 07:43 AM

Like it say's this is probably the best color job you're ever going to see, I dare you to "try" and pick anything!. Old fellas shoes not included, left em till last and by then i was over it.

P.S. If you don't reply, you AGREE!

toe · #2 06-05-2007, 07:53 AM

Dont know what hapened.

Swampy · #3 06-05-2007, 08:26 AM

Toe.. Welcome to RTP

To be honest, I've seen better. Yours is not bad, but the children seem washed out compared to the contrast of the adults.

LQQKER · #4 06-05-2007, 09:19 AM

Not seeing the original no doubt flaws my critique.

I'll agree with the Swamp lady, however I do realize that uneven lighting was prevelant in that time period. I think more detail could have been brought out on the outer edge individuals and some burning on the children. Contrast is also uneven (as stated). The unvaried color on the brick background looks "colored" and incomplete. The concrete and grey suits have a redish cast as well.

As far as the overall coloring, it seems under colored to my taste. However, if this coloring "floats your boat" and you are truly as content as you imply, keep practicing, you'll get even better.

TheVeed · #5 06-05-2007, 09:23 AM

they don't look alive, they look colorized. Where's the warm skin undertone?

dkcoats · #6 06-05-2007, 09:42 AM

I could say that your arrogance is irritating but instead I'll be charitable and say that your self-confidence is admirable.

I'm with Swampy. It's not bad, but I've seen lots better. Sorry.

NancyJ · #7 06-05-2007, 02:02 PM

If you think this is the best, you've havent seen Vikki's work. http://www.pbase.com/vhansen/colorings&page=1

Swampy · #8 06-05-2007, 02:17 PM

Nancy, Vickie's work is very good, but just browsing her gallery her before's don't appear to be in real bad shape.

NancyJ · #9 06-05-2007, 02:27 PM

The ones in the colourization gallery have been cleaned up first. Her restoration gallery has some that are in pretty bad shape and as old pics go, the OPs isnt in too bad shape.
http://www.pbase.com/vhansen/restorations&page=all

TheVeed · #10 06-05-2007, 03:15 PM

now THAT'S good coloring and restoration work, thanks for the link, it's pretty motivating.

NancyJ · #11 06-05-2007, 03:55 PM

Its not just good, its the best I've ever seen and probably the best I'll ever be likely to see.

ratz · #12 06-05-2007, 05:32 PM

Take it on the chin Toe, Vikkis work is far better.
Her coloring is beautiful.

chillin · #13 06-06-2007, 12:24 AM

I second Swampy; the kids need some attention, but what with the eyes of the purple lady?
…and don’t be intimidated with Vikki’s work, you could be as good as she is or…better.

Gary Richardson · #14 06-06-2007, 04:19 AM

Quote:

Could this be the best?

No! It's OK, but I've seen lots better.

toe · #15 06-06-2007, 05:40 AM

Thank you for your welcome Swampy, Of course your right about the kids but i didn't have access to a burn tool till 2 days ago, I finally got photoshop, a mate upgraded and gave me his copy of ps7 the work was done with photodeluxe that i got OEM with my scanner back in 96.

LQQKER, again thank you for your comments, I'm learning a lot just by reading what you guys talk about. The red cast you picked up on must be compression, cos i was too lazy to give any of the black and white stuff colors.

The Veed, again, Right, only excuse is I just try and use every pixel i can when doing a restoration, without actually "Painting" if i can help it, Plus i don't really trust myself with a brush anyway.
I know this is going to sound dumb! but i just colored the bottom layer and then erased the parts from the. top layer that i wanted to color and then just adjusted the bottom layer to suit, Done all the skin in one hit, I reckon it worked well for the 3 people on the left and the kids, bride and groom too dark, the two on the right albino's!

dkcoats, Haha! Sorry to disappoint but I'm neither of those! The post was trying to get you to smile more than frown, i should have put in one of those little smileys.
I was just fishing for the best way for you guys to have a look for a start, and then tell me everything that i couldn't see. Trust me! I know I'm far from perfect, Just trying my best like everyone else.

NancyJ, I have checked out vikki's stuff, and i agree with swampy, Very good! But i wish i had some high res photo's to muck around with too, and I'm not saying i would do half as good a job as her, but i think with these low res photos you can only do so much.
half of these photo's in the restoration section, One black pixel out of place and you have a new life form.

Anyway thank you all for your replies, I had a quick go with photoshop to do what you asked, I don't real know how to use it yet but it looks very impressive! Lots of gizmo's! I like the healing tool and i tried to use the lighting filter to add some light where it should have been on the left, burnt the kids a bit, Unfortunately i think the smallest one was just a color void from the start and in motion when the picture was taken.

I have added the same file with some of the things you mentioned adjusted, Color saturation is plus 50 just for the sake of comparison, I known you can see my slap happy cloning now, Just to see if you like the colors!

Just seen chillin and Gary R and rats.
again vikki is very good, People like that inspire me to do the best job i can, For me it's about leaving as many of the original pixels in place as i can,

So i suppose all my skin coloring is always going to be a little bit too uniform, just hope you like my choice of colors, It was all done with hue and eraser.

chillin, maybe one day. She is VERY good.