[Vikki]

Do you have any idea about the correct colors? I just guessed at these. I think her dress may have been pink, but I was going for a bit more contrast.
The best thing to remember when coloring is that there are millions of colors, so don't limit yourself to just a few.

[Flora]

Leah,

I had seen that tutorial ... and tried it only once on the same picture downloaded from the tutorial site .... as I said .... colorizing is definitely not my cup of tea ... compared to Vikki's beautiful, very natural result, mine seems a made-up doll....


Vikki,

I always admired all your work .... but the pictures you colorize are really breathtaking ....

pcbrown wrote:

On the edge of the photo I have a sample of the womans dress and a small sample of the background.She also said she was blonde but this photo doesn't seem to support that, Lokks more to be light brown to me.

I do hope he finds a way to let you know ....

[Vikki]

Flora, thank you! Your coloring looks great. It's just a different style.
I don't care for the tutorials where you are instructed to select areas, or the hue/sat method. The one I use it the Primary Coloring method at this site (it's not easy, but I like the results).
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp

[ajcutler]

Vikki showed me the primary colorization method from worth1000.com a while ago, and I've use it a lot, and feel it produces very nice results. Like Vikki I used it on this image. I find that the primary colorization method doesn't always give me the best skin color, so I usually add additional layers (blending mode color) to tweek any colors that need adjusting.

I also compared some methods for converting to grayscale before I started colorizing: image/mode/grayscale, channel mixer (with monochrome selected), and then the channels. I went with the green channel which looked the best to me, and opened it up a little with a levels layer.

Flora, I couldn't agree more about Vikki's tremendous skills in colorizing.

Alan

[Flora]

Vikki,

Thank you very much for the link .... I had been there once already and tried it ... Been back yesterday and I'm going to try it again...

Alan,

Wow!!...Just beautiful .... Gosh ... I really have to try it again....

[Vikki]

Very nice Alan!
I noticed right away how much better the lettering looks on your version. I didn't even think to fix that.

[ajcutler]

Thank you Vikki and Flora for the nice words.

Vikki, must be the work I do on document restoration that made me go after the lettering. :-)

Alan