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Hiya, I would like to colour a black and white photo of yours truly taking part in Trooping the colour 1959. I would appreciate any advice on howto do it or someone to do it for me for which I would cover the cost photo's attached. Aggie
hi aggie we do have some members who with the right programme enjoy enjoy adding colour to old black and whites so i have moved this thread to our picture restoration section where it may get noticed a bit more hopefully someone will be able to help you
I am assuming you wish to colour a digital image? You really need a programme like Photoshop or Photoshop elements. There are others around, and there are some programmes that will colour images automatically, but Photoshop is what I use and know and it gives you complete control over the end result.
As always with Photoshop there are a number of different ways to achieve the same effect, but this works for me
You need to add a new layer to the images and change the blending mode to color. The select a soft edge brush and paint in the colours you want. I am simplifying the process a little bit, as you can get into sections too. I don't have very good colour vision so I avoid colouring photos, but will help out if someone else cannot.
Here are a couple of skin and hair colour pallets that may be helpful to any who want a go. They are marked as copyright, but the author put them on the net as a free to use download as long as you don't sell them for profit
Thanks everyone for their good advice especially morturn (I will get a copy of Photoshop) and astoness to get me more coverage. With regard to maypolebaz on return to Chelsea from Germany early 1959 our 303s were exchanged for the Belgium FN and arms training commenced ready for public duties hence the photos that's all I can remember. Aggie
Hi aggie - I'm no expert and using my standard laptop with a mouse and my shaky hand produced the following example using a free down-loadable app called GIMP which works like most advanced photo editors but is not user friendly until you get used to it. Someone with more patience and time could produce a much better job. It looks reasonable on a small screen but would not look good printed at say A4 size.