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Colourise BW pic
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Brummie a long time ago
master brummie
Sort of relevant. Does anyone remember the hand colourising kits from years ago They were sold specifically for photos. My Mum had one, a box with several bottles of colours, very liquid, just like water, and some brushes. She spent several happy hours painting old photos with a very fine brush. I remember the flesh colour was quite good, made for a particular job. The others were generic blues, reds etc just to get as close as required. I don't think the colours were intended to be mixed, they were used straight from the bottle, perhaps overpainted to change shades.
Andrew
Andrew
I recall the colourizing kits as I got interested in photography, there were also retouching kits for the people who developed and printed their own photos.
My dad colourized quite a few of his photos from his time abroad during and after WWII. They did look quite effective.
dennissheldon
master brummie
Jonob
master brummie
One from me, John.
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Jonob
master brummie
Cleaned up-nothing altered, John.
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Nogginday
Brummie babby
Is it AI restored?
Limes
knowlegable brummie
AI is part of the process I use, more specifically a Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN, which is a type of Deep Neural Network, basically yes.
but it's also 90% Lightroom, hand tinted colour and light usually. I've been doing a lot of free portraits of late.
I don't use AI for colour.
brummy-lad
master brummie
This is a hand coloured b&w photo from around 1951, it is of my elder brother and me. The quality of the colouring is amazing.
I find it fascinating that we are now able to digitally colourise b&w photos although this process (at times) is controversial and of course rarely includes a list of the colours to be used.
Photography has always been a hobby of mine, in the early 60s I started to develop my own b&w films and distinctly remember trying to hand colour some of them, without any success I might add.
I find it fascinating that we are now able to digitally colourise b&w photos although this process (at times) is controversial and of course rarely includes a list of the colours to be used.
Photography has always been a hobby of mine, in the early 60s I started to develop my own b&w films and distinctly remember trying to hand colour some of them, without any success I might add.
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jukebox
Engineer Brummie
I had that exact developing tank when I started with black and white. Spin the agitator for 5 seconds every minute
