Colorizing old B/W photos

Guzzler

Found a link for some beta software to colorize B/W photos, and thought I would share. No I haven't downloaded and tried it, but it does look really cool and easy to use.

So, check out Recolored.com for some interesting software.

Oh, don't forget to checkout the Gallery of samples! Way COOL!!!

DanielB

Guzzler wrote:

Found a link for some beta software to colorize B/W photos, and thought I would share. No I haven't downloaded and tried it, but it does look really cool and easy to use.

So, check out Recolored.com for some interesting software.

Oh, don't forget to checkout the Gallery of samples! Way COOL!!!

that. is freakin sweet.
:jawdrop

wxwax

The sample images all look like colorized Turner movies.

edgework

wxwax wrote:

The sample images all look like colorized Turner movies.

If you were willing to cut masks for each area, then drop your colors on top of the image in Color mode, you'd get the same effect. Color mode never quite manages to get away from the image's grayscale roots, though, particularly in the shadow areas. Real shadows have more color in them, for one. For another, real objects don't maintain a single hue from highlights to shadows.

Gradient maps are far more effective, particularly for skin tones and hair. But, then, there's that pain of cutting a dozen different masks and sampling separate colors for each gradient. But if realism is the goal, nothing beats it.