Do you have a special photo you want colorized??

[AMTG]

These two portraits belong to a mate of mine, if you can do anything with them, that would be greatly appreciated, thanks very much

[oksnevad_2]

from my collection-----Panzer-Grenadier
Ive always liked this portrait for some reason

Super Panzer-Grenadier portrait Bill

[oksnevad_2]

My latest

[AMTG]

Very nice.....I must admit I didn't think a great deal of colourisation, but seeing your work, they do bring a new life to the photos...

May I ask how much of what you are able to do is guess work??! Meaning is there any information in the shades of the BW photos that give you a hint to th colour, or is the programme you use able to detect colours

[oksnevad_2]

Thanks AMTG!

The BW photos still has all the shades and shadows, therefor you only need one color (Kind of a transparent layer in a way) on lets say the uniform, and the shades and shadows will do the lighting.
All the colors are done manually to get the right color, using different methods and with some luck you can get some realistic looking photos.
I use my original ww2 collectibles and ww2 reference books to get the color I want, just compering buy looking.

Best regards from Norway

[oksnevad_2]

One of you photos AMTG

[don_kihotis7]

from my collection-----Panzer-Grenadier
Ive always liked this portrait for some reason


The waffenfabre isnt coming out right when posted on the forum lately. It looks completely different on my computer.....I wonder why?

Bro how do you know that he is a panzer grenadier? Is it written on the reverse?

[don_kihotis7]

My latest

Excellent ss photo and colorization Leander.

[oksnevad_2]

Thanks Chris!

[Bill T]

May I ask how much of what you are able to do is guess work??! Meaning is there any information in the shades of the BW photos that give you a hint to th colour, or is the programme you use able to detect colours

Honestly this is the part where trying to study uniforms comes in handy. The program doesnt do anything, so you need to figure it out. Like on the British photos, I really had no clue where to start for these particular uniforms....so I searched online until I thouhgt I had found the correct match. Then the hardest part is to try and get the colors to look correctly on the image. Some photos are darker, so you need to play with a bunch of different colors to try and get the right one. Some come out very realistic, others do not. Photo quality is really key

Nice job on that one Leander! I will give AMTG's other one a go