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I found an old shot of my late dad in an African economy conference back in the 60's or 70's complete with the translating/hearing aids provided at that time.
I've tried to imagine what the scene was like and did colour it and clean it up.
Does it work for you? How do the colours look on your monitor?
Liban
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have." Nelson Mandela
Liban,
Very good job in your adding color and cleaning the picture. Looks fine. Personally, though, I like the old tone and faded look of the original picture and just cleaning it would work great for me.
Good work.
Nice work, Liban. I'm with payn.......excellent job.
John
Originally Posted by CLKunst
I think you've done a fabulous job with this Liban. What a great image to work with and restore.
Originally Posted by stew
Wow, I am impressed with the PS skills! I've been trying my hand at improving mine recently, and your work here is truly inspiring.
Thanks a lot. I appreciate all the kind words.
My mom actually flipped out when she saw this. She isn't very "techy" and couldn't believe it when she saw it (she's very familiar with the old shot). She thought it was some sorta magic, lol.
But for some reason, I wasn't very satisfieds with the tones of the colour image and that's why I posted it to see if it worked for you. I'm not very satisfied with anything I do, really. lol. To me it still looks like a coloured shot, sorta like the coloured B&W films (I'm not sure if you guys seen any), just not absolutely natural.
Thanks again.
Liban
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have." Nelson Mandela
Liban,
Very good job in your adding color and cleaning the picture. Looks fine. Personally, though, I like the old tone and faded look of the original picture and just cleaning it would work great for me.
Good work.
Originally Posted by dbutler
Great job! I'm with Gary, though. While you've done a wonderful job, I think the original is just perfect.
Originally Posted by villenadecorte
I think you did a remarkable job cleaning this up! I like the old tones, but think you really nailed those colors!
Great job!
B.
Thanks.
I see why and how you'd like the original tones, they're just so classic. And I do agree with you now. I've converted the original to B&W to do the retouching becuase I've always had the idea of colouring it (and not preserving the original tones) from the gitgo. But I took the B&W and tried to bring it back to it's formal sepia tone. Here's how the shot looks after a clean up only, sans the colouring.
Thanks for your feedback, it's been great as usual.
Liban
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have." Nelson Mandela
I have a total lack of respect for anything connected with society, except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. Brendan Behan
You have the tones of the hand tinted photos we have of my wife's family.
I think it's a good colouring job ou've done on this.
That's very similar to what I was refering to when I was talking about coloured movies as well. I guess it's quite natural that they turn out this way. Thanks.
Originally Posted by gahspidy
Yes, looks good, Liban.
Thanks Gary
Originally Posted by Tuna
I like both the color and B&W repaired versions. Though the B&W is very nice, the color version you've created is remarkable.
Tuna
Thank you Tuna. Appreciated.
Liban
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have." Nelson Mandela
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Originally Posted by payn817
I would have never noticed that even though it's so prominent now that you've told me about it.
