One of my hobbies................

[Pete]

Once in a while, I get some spare time to play at nothing at all. One of my favorite things to play at is colorizing old photos.
This is Columbia U in NYC circa 1903. It's a two photo splice, then colorized.

[JeffSchmeff]

Thats really a good job man. Cool stuff. :cheers:

[Skin'emAlive]

Thats pretty good... but what happened to the two cars in the bottom right corner? ;)

[Pete]

Thats pretty good... but what happened to the two cars in the bottom right corner? ;)

Trolly cars, and they just didn't have enough detail to keep in.

[Mass_SkinsFan]

That is both wonderful and amazing, Pete. Really cool stuff.

[Tarhog]

Okay. Now the fun part.

How the hell did you do that???

[The Sir]

With crayons

[dfitzo53]

With crayons

He did a really good job at staying inside the lines then. ;)

[Pete]

Okay. Now the fun part.

How the hell did you do that???


It's not that hard at all actually. Anybody with crayons can do it :laugh:

Just some transparent layers over the black and white with different levels of opacity. It's really is like a coloring book. ;)

[Jofizz]

That's awesome, Pete. Looks like an enjoyable hobby.

My Grandfather attended Columbia around 1946-47.

[#98QBKiller]

That's awesome. It's gives you a better idea of what things actually looked like in the old days.

[HapHaszard]

That's awesome. It's gives you a better idea of what things actually looked like in the old days.
Hey I was there back in the old days, and I don't remember no stinkin colors. :laugh:

[DeanCollins]

that's very nice Pete, do you color the early daytona race pics? :D

http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/07/27/88/image_1588277.jpg

[jrockster21]

That's pretty cool, Pete. You do that by hand? Or do you do that in photoshop? (I'm confused by the crayons comment...:laugh:...and I'm slow...)

[Bugs']

Very impressive Pete.....cool hobby.

[Teller]

Very cool stuff Pete. How long does it take you to do a photo like that? The result is certainly worth it, but it seems like it would be VERY time consuming.

[Pete]

that's very nice Pete, do you color the early daytona race pics? :D


http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/07/27/88/image_1588277.jpg

I'll give it a shot :)



That's pretty cool, Pete. You do that by hand? Or do you do that in photoshop? (I'm confused by the crayons comment...:laugh:...and I'm slow...)

Photoshop, and an earlier post had a comment about the crayons :laugh:


Very cool stuff Pete. How long does it take you to do a photo like that? The result is certainly worth it, but it seems like it would be VERY time consuming.

That was an easy one, and took about 2.5 hours. Idle hands are the devils hands...................

[Jofizz]

http://espn-att.starwave.com/i/sportscentury/inline/baugh.jpg

Ever try any old skins pics, Pete?

[Teller]

That was an easy one, and took about 2.5 hours. Idle hands are the devils hands...................

Agreed. That's why I twiddle my thumbs a lot. ;)

Seriously though, I thought it would take a lot longer than that. I'd be interested in seeing some more of your work when/if you get time.

[China]

OK, Pete I found some old Civil War photos for you (not that you probably had a shortage of photos to tinker with):

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0605/gallery.civil.war/frameset.exclude.html

An example:

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/us/0605/gallery.civil.war/01.capitol.ap.jpg

[Barney B]

Not bad at all.

Here's what I think you did right:

Usually, it seems like, when I look at colorized photos, the colors are a bit too saturated, making the whole picture look a little bit "fake". You, on the other hand, didn't give in to temptation, you got the colors just strong enough.

Here's what I think you did wrong:

Uh, nothing, actually, it's perfect. Why did I write this part? :)





Oh, and HapHaszard, too funny.

[zoony]

Usually, it seems like, when I look at colorized photos, the colors are a bit too saturated, making the whole picture look a little bit "fake". You, on the other hand, didn't give in to temptation, you got the colors just strong enough.
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agreed.

Nice work Pete, thanks for sharing. That is cool stuff. I wouldn't mind seeing more.

.....

[Pete]

Here's the one for Dean............ And yes, that's a Triumph in the lead :laugh:

EDIT: I tend to stay away from people. Clothing is easy, but I haven't found a good combo for flesh colors.

[cjcdaman]

Pete, what do you do with them when you are finished? Just keep them saved on your computer?

[DeanCollins]

Here's the one for Dean............ And yes, that's a Triumph in the lead :laugh:



that's awesome, great work Pete. brit bikes ruled!

[Pete]

Pete, what do you do with them when you are finished? Just keep them saved on your computer?


I see no real use for the colorized pics besides keeping my hands busy, so I normally don't keep them.

[dfitzo53]

I see no real use for the colorized pics besides keeping my hands busy, so I normally don't keep them.

If you ever have any you're really proud of, I think most photo places nowadays will make prints from a CD or disk.

[Titaw]

A good way to do a flesh tone is open a recent color pic and take your extracting dropper and pull the color from them, bring it to you color pallet and BAM!!! you got yourself a base skin tone that you can make llighter or darker.

Great pics!!! I am gonna have to scan a pic of my grandfather playing football so you can do it fo me (I don't have the patience!!)

[Pete]

A good way to do a flesh tone is open a recent color pic and take your extracting dropper and pull the color from them, bring it to you color pallet and BAM!!! you got yourself a base skin tone that you can make llighter or darker.

Great pics!!! I am gonna have to scan a pic of my grandfather playing football so you can do it fo me (I don't have the patience!!)

That works well if your dealing with a white background, or a solid layer over the pic. The over layers I do are normally between 8 and 25 % solid, so when you lay on a color, it's nowhere near what it looks like on the pallet. If you just color at 100%, you lose all the detail.

I'll be glad to give the pic of your grandfather a shot.

[Olky]

Great pics Pete. (I'm gonna have to start learning photoshop)

[Pete]

Store front Atlantic City

[cjcdaman]

If you ever have any you're really proud of, I think most photo places nowadays will make prints from a CD or disk.


That's what I was thinking. Pete, if you have some particular favorites that you have done, you should store them on a CD in case you wanted to look at them some time in the future. Or have some of your favs printed out.

[Kosher Ham]

Thats really cool.

I need to try to get some practice time in with all of these photo manipulator programs.

In everyone's experience, what the easiest and best program to use ?

I got something called digital image standard on my computer. Which I have no clue how to utilize.

[Pete]

Thats really cool.

I need to try to get some practice time in with all of these photo manipulator programs.

In everyone's experience, what the easiest and best program to use ?

I got something called digital image standard on my computer. Which I have no clue how to utilize.

Just start to play with a pic on it. As long as it allows layers, and you can change the opacity of the layers, you good to go. Most graphics programs have a "read me" or "help" section.

I use an old version of Adobe Photo delux............

[Prosperity]

Wow, that is really cool

[Pete]

A little closer to home for some of ya folks....

Newport News

[Skinz89]

It's not that hard at all actually. Anybody with crayons can do it :laugh:

Just some transparent layers over the black and white with different levels of opacity. It's really is like a coloring book. ;)
hmm too bad i cant color in the lines yet:laugh:

[Park City Skins]

You mean things weren't black and white back then? ;)


Good stuff Pete.

[The Sir]

A little closer to home for some of ya folks....

Newport News

That's a good one, any idea what time frame that picture was taken?

[Om]

Color me impressed. :)

[cjcdaman]

That's a good one, any idea what time frame that picture was taken?

I'm going to guess. Late 1800's because of phonographs, but because of Coca Cola, I'll say 1900-1910.

[#98QBKiller]

Hey I was there back in the old days, and I don't remember no stinkin colors. :laugh:





:laugh: That reminds me...when we were very young, my sister asked my mom what year the world came into color. I've never managed to forget about that.


I think the Wizard of Oz had an impact on her believing that.:)

[Pete]

That's a good one, any idea what time frame that picture was taken?


That's twenty eighth street, circa 1906.

cjcdaman wins a cookie :laugh:

Five cents for a coke.........gone are dem days..............

[cjcdaman]

cjcdaman wins a cookie :laugh:

Can I get season tix to the 'Skins instead? :D

P.S. Please! :silly:

[Major Harris]

Can I get season tix to the 'Skins instead? :D

P.S. Please! :silly:
:nono:
pete still owes me for his roast in the sounds thread. :cool:

[cjcdaman]

:nono:
pete still owes me for his roast in the sounds thread. :cool:

But he probably forgot about that. Now it's my turn. :silly:

[Pete]

:nono:
pete still owes me for his roast in the sounds thread. :cool:


Workin on it dude


Anybody from VA know this place....................

[KAOSkins]

Very cool Pete. I like nostalgia. I would bet that having to look at those pics for an hour or so, you pick up on some of subtlities - like all the cop cars in the daytona pic. Nothing like the old time bikers. Ex military and rowdy as hell.

[cjcdaman]

Workin on it dude


Anybody from VA know this place....................

Yeah that's the Virginia Welcome Center as you exit West Virginia. :silly:

[slackermike]

Here's the one for Dean............ And yes, that's a Triumph in the lead :laugh:

EDIT: I tend to stay away from people. Clothing is easy, but I haven't found a good combo for flesh colors.

Good job, but since you stay away from people the photo made me think that they were all grey zombies waiting for one to wreck so that they could eat THEIR BRAAAAAAAAAAAINS! ;) hehe :laugh:

[Shallow1]

Can you color a picture of Michael Jackson??

[zoony]

Can you color a picture of Michael Jackson??


:laugh: :laugh:

[Pete]

OK, started this one last night. Last one for now, gotta get some real work done :laugh:

Thanks for all the kind words, and support. I'll bump this up when I get some time, and do some more.

:cheers:

Confederate Soldiers' Home, Richmond, 1908

[SlinginSammy HOF '63]

http://espn-att.starwave.com/i/sportscentury/inline/baugh.jpg

Ever try any old skins pics, Pete?
bump. I'm interested. :cheers:

[praise_gibbs]

Have you done any more of these, Pete? or just never went back to it after 'the real work'? :laugh:

[riggins44]

A little closer to home for some of ya folks....

Newport News

I believe Buxton & Parker was an old law firm on Hunnington Ave., in probably what is now called East End. Buxton was a very prominent name/family.

Pete...I got some old b&w photos from the area. One is of a skipjack that
my great grandfather owned. Another is my mom's father in front of first
car he ever bought (a 1917 Ford). Photo was taken in 1919.

If you want any old pics let me know.

[Sweet Sassy Molassy]

Good work Pete. When I was teaching Photoshop that was one of the projects that I had my students do. Take a B&W photograph, and colorize it. Do you use the blend modes at all? Or are you just playing around with opacity? Because if you want more natural skin tones blend modes work well. Blend modes work very well in general, for skin tones and otherwise. Off the top of my head, Overlay is one that works well. But over all good stuff.

[Pete]

Have you done any more of these, Pete? or just never went back to it after 'the real work'? :laugh:

Things have been nuts, and I haven't been up to it for a while.


I believe Buxton & Parker was an old law firm on Hunnington Ave., in probably what is now called East End. Buxton was a very prominent name/family.

Pete...I got some old b&w photos from the area. One is of a skipjack that
my great grandfather owned. Another is my mom's father in front of first
car he ever bought (a 1917 Ford). Photo was taken in 1919.

If you want any old pics let me know.

Check the PM I sent, but actually, send everything you got.


Good work Pete. When I was teaching Photoshop that was one of the projects that I had my students do. Take a B&W photograph, and colorize it. Do you use the blend modes at all? Or are you just playing around with opacity? Because if you want more natural skin tones blend modes work well. Blend modes work very well in general, for skin tones and otherwise. Off the top of my head, Overlay is one that works well. But over all good stuff.

Never did the blend modes. I'll have to give it a shot. If I have any questions, I'll know who to contact ;)

[SonOfWashington]

Okay. Now the fun part.

How the hell did you do that???MS Paint :D

[Pete]

MS Paint :D

If you can do that with MS paint, your my hero :cool:

[Pete]

OK, it's been a while, but I'm bringin this one back to life.

Like many, I have been just a tad stressed :rolleyes: this week over all the happy horse **** with the team. I needed to get rid of a little stress, so I stepped back, and played for a while with some pics a friend posted on our club site.

Hope ya like them............ Circa 1948. The way the coaching search is going, I'd say there's more to come :)
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/One-lunger/other%20stuff/PICS01-00122-L.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/One-lunger/other%20stuff/Trophygirl.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/One-lunger/other%20stuff/PICS01-00094-L.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/One-lunger/other%20stuff/Funattrack.jpg

[BigMike619]

dude you are nuckin futs with the color.

I am really impressed Pete..

[Teller]

:laugh:

Is that a young G.W. Bush in the first pic? :laugh:

Awesome work Pete. The skin tones are coming along nicely. I can't imagine how tough that must be. The girl in the middle, and the guy on the right in the second pic look especially good.

(Also, in addition to GWB, you have a celebrity in the second photo too. The guy on the left is a young Carl Edwards (NASCAR driver.))

[PokerPacker]

If you can do that with MS paint, your my hero :cool:
i changed the colors of something using paint one time. it was a *****! if i did it one pixel at a time instead of getting lazy, it would have looked like it was supposed to be that color.

[Raub]

Is that 1948 cameltoe? :laugh:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/One-lunger/other%20stuff/Trophygirl.jpg

[Pete]

:laugh:

Is that a young G.W. Bush in the first pic? :laugh:

Awesome work Pete. The skin tones are coming along nicely. I can't imagine how tough that must be. The girl in the middle, and the guy on the right in the second pic look especially good.

(Also, in addition to GWB, you have a celebrity in the second photo too. The guy on the left is a young Carl Edwards (NASCAR driver.))

Hey, the chicks are Sweedish, German, and Italian, so the skin tones are just fine ;) :laugh:

The GWB didn't catch my eye till you pointed it out............ scarey :laugh:

[Gracelander]

Is that 1948 cameltoe? :laugh:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/One-lunger/other%20stuff/Trophygirl.jpg
I'm glad you said it, I was going to :laugh:

[Pete]

Here's another vintage racing pic

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/One-lunger/other%20stuff/PICS01-00041-L.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/One-lunger/other%20stuff/Barnjob.jpg