This is my first attempt at colorizing a vintage photo (below), what do you think? I love the original photo party because of the fabulous hairstyles of the two women. One of the women is wearing a “peysuföt” (a traditional Icelandic Costume) and the other a Danish dress. The photo was taken sometime between 1900-1920.
I’m not overly happy with the finished picture, the skin tones don’t look particularly realistic to me, but hopefully that will come with practice. I think the woman on the left has turned out better than the women on the right, whose face has ended up looking a bit strange…
In fact my 7 year old has just looked at the picture over my shoulder and said ‘look at those ladies, they look weird’ *sigh* Has anyone got any colorizing tips?
Original photo source and copyright: No known copyright restrictions
Well done
thanks Peter Buchorne – it’s not quite right, but I don’t think it’s too bad for a first attempt!
A very good first attempt
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thanks
Hi,
I’ve got a ‘step-by-step’ guide designed for colourising Victorian pictures but you can use it for pretty much anything that I can send, it’s just a few JPEG’s with examples of results, but I don’t know how to send anything to you. Email me and I’ll send it over. I assume you’ve got Photoshop?
Andy.
Also I found to be a good source of CDV’s etc
ams9908 Hi Andy, that sounds great, thanks. You can mail me on weheartvintage (at) hotmail.co.uk
ams9908 that site looks great, thanks!
Hi,
Just to let you know I’ve sent the guide I mentioned. I’m lucky in that a friend of mine who is a professional photographer and therefore uses Photoshop all the time lives just round the corner from me – if I come across anything I can’t do I ring him! :- )
Andy.