Colorizing photos

[Ron C.]

A few more of mine.

[D_Dutch]

Original Version;



And the colorized one; (first attempt ever, so it isn't perfect. )

[stahlhelmwilly]

Hello,

I would like to ask if someone could make this picture or could perhaps change the quality of the photo.
It comes from a piece of film which is of poor quality.
It would mean a lot to me.

Thanks in advance,

Stahlhelmwilly

[HouweTrouwe]

If someone feels bored:

[Stroodle]

Ron C:
Your work is absolutley incredible. I shoot professionally for a living, and have posted a lot of photo's in the living history section. Some day, when the clients are not beating on the door, I would love to take the time to colorize my photo's the way that you have.
David

[Wijtman01]

nice ones guys, i work with photoshop almost everyday
here is a shot

[Wijtman01]

[HouweTrouwe]

If someone feels bored:

Hope this is good?.

I didn't watermark it otherwise you will see it after.

[BlackWolf3945]

Here's my latest effort. Some changes need to be made yet, and I probably got some of the colors wrong,
but it'll do for now.

Click 'em for larger images...

Before:




After:




Fade to Black...

[Akira Takiguchi]

Steve, due to your superb colorization, and we all know you have a super collection, I am beginning to feel afraid that someone might take this as a true color reference (though I assume you are doing it with maximum authenticity)! I'd recommend you (not only Steve) that you mark your scans as "colorized" somewhere on the scan!

[Ron C.]

Ron C:
Your work is absolutley incredible. I shoot professionally for a living, and have posted a lot of photo's in the living history section. Some day, when the clients are not beating on the door, I would love to take the time to colorize my photo's the way that you have.
David

David,

Thank you for your kind remarks.

Ron

[i.spring]

Thats a superb effort!. Thanks for shareing
Ian

[i.spring]

On a slighlty different note, i just found a great piece of free software that is very good at removing noise, speckles and lost details in photos.
I know myself, often my scanner creates a nasty artifical digital noise buzz in my photos. I just tried this and it seems to work very well.
http://www.neatimage.com/download.html
Ian

[stahlhelmwilly]

If someone feels bored and would like to test this free software here is a pic what needs a makeover

[seekwhence]

Thats a superb effort, very realistic with the tones of a late war american kodacolor film.

Ian... what is it that you collect again?! Kodacolor was a film for producing color negatives. Kodachrome was used for making color positives (those are color slides in case you have forgotten ).
Glad to help clear up this 'simple' mistake!
Cheers!

Dave (seekwhence)