Colorized B&W Photographs

[davep]

www.flickr.com/photos/36919288@N08/
This guy has taken may of your favorite Black-n-White photographs from World War II and colorized them. When you take a Black and White photo and colorize it, it adds a life that simply is not there in grays and whites. It makes the photo more real. There are 65 such photos, Red Army, German, British and American. here is just one example

[SSgt. Burgess]

Those are amazing. He did a really good job, wow.

[davep]

There is software that allows one to do this, but one still has to have a eye for the appropriate colors. Also to have an eye for shading. For example a women's face is just not one color, she has make-up and blush on, not to mention lipstick. It is truly amazing, black and white photograph make people look fake, ancient, dead. Color makes them look as though they are still alive and real today. It makes World War II photgraphs look like they were taken last week.

This is software to help speed up the process
www.recolored.com/

This is a "How-To" for those who have Photoshop
www.shuttertalk.com/articles/handcolouring

[davep]

After seeing some of these colorizations of B&W photographs, I decided to take a stab at it. Here is my first attempt. This is the wartime photo of one of the veterans from the last Camp Roberts Battle.... Leon "Jed" Jedziniak