colored b/w photos that looks real

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Roberto
Apr 15, 2006
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All my attempts to re-color b/w photos results in photos that look obviously colored (washed out color). I just found a colored photo that looks "authentic". Does anyone know what coloring technique was used? Look at the first photo in this link (themepost by eurydice):

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?cont est_id=9906&display=photoshop#entries

The rest of the photos all look washed out, and that’s what my colored photos look like. I didn’t participate in this contest. I’m just using it to make a point.
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Apr 15, 2006
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All my attempts to re-color b/w photos results in photos that look obviously colored (washed out color). I just found a colored photo that looks "authentic".

Just one of the mistakes people usually make in coloring B&W is in giving everyone very similar skin-tones; people are just not that alike. Another error is in unvarying saturation in plain areas, thus the impression of "flatness".

This sounds like a good subject for the Curvemeister to take on.
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Tacit
Apr 15, 2006
In article <3G80g.323$>, "peter"
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All my attempts to re-color b/w photos results in photos that look obviously colored (washed out color). I just found a colored photo that looks "authentic".

Why do your attempts look washed out? How are you trying to add the color?

The easiest way to colorize something that is black and white is to set a paintbrush to Color mode–that’s what it’s there for. In Color mode, the brush will only change color without changing luminosity or detail.

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iehsmith
Apr 15, 2006
I’d just like to know where they’re getting the photos to play with. I don’t dig the contest, but the photos look like fun and bring back many fond memories.

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Kingdom
Apr 15, 2006
"peter" wrote in news:3G80g.323$:

All my attempts to re-color b/w photos results in photos that look obviously colored (washed out color). I just found a colored photo that looks "authentic". Does anyone know what coloring technique was used? Look at the first photo in this link (themepost by eurydice):
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?cont est_id=
9906
&display=photoshop#entries

The rest of the photos all look washed out, and that’s what my colored photos look like. I didn’t participate in this contest. I’m just using it to make a point.
Use a good strong colour image as your pallette, don’t ‘guess’ your colours
Layers and colour modes, thats it, generaly you paint on a layer using ‘color’ mode but you can also duplicate that layer and change the mode again, using ‘overlay’ on the top duplicate layer really boosts it and makes the colour really pop then it can be adjusted using the opacity slider. you can selectivly do this for each area or each colour then by switching off the other layer and merging them down to one layer again and even repeat the whole process, building each colour progressivly untill your happy with it and it can be as strong as you like, no need at all to live with washed out colours.

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