Coloring Photos: Hello all, I thought I would try my hand at coloring a photo that I shot, here's the end result. This was taken at the Old Tucson Movie Studio in Tucson, AZ. I would...

ncammack Loc: American Southwest (Lots of beach, no ocean)

Hello all,

I thought I would try my hand at coloring a photo that I shot, here's the end result. This was taken at the Old Tucson Movie Studio in Tucson, AZ. I would be interested in seeing how others go about accomplishing this task.

Neil

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Very effective! I've never done; would you start off the discussion by explaining how you did yours?

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

ncammack wrote:

Hello all,

I thought I would try my hand at coloring a photo that I shot, here's the end result. This was taken at the Old Tucson Movie Studio in Tucson, AZ. I would be interested in seeing how others go about accomplishing this task.

Neil

Was it done by hand or by Photoshop? I have done it by hand back when Photoshop was not heard of in the general population. In Photoshop we all could use a few lessons. I sure could. It would beat the many coats of lacquer when done by hand. I have not seen the lacquer with tooth for pencil or chalk around lately. I wonder if we can still get it. Good job. Nice subject. I might have done the reverse and colored all but the people because in those western times no one was photographed in color. Can I ask where the shot was taken?

Treepusher Loc: Kingston, Massachusetts

Nicely done. There are many ways to do this. I myself do a layered B/W conversion (usually with Photoshop and Topaz) and mask off what I don't want de-colorized. Pretty easy.

ncammack Loc: American Southwest (Lots of beach, no ocean)

Hello all,
This was done with GIMP from a tutorial found online somewhere?? It's a conversion of a color photo to B/W, then adding layer masks and erasing where you want the color to show through. Sounds a lot like the technique that TREEPUSHER uses. I found the link for the tutorial http://www.instructables.com/id/Coloring-Black-and-White-Images-With-The-GIMP/

I imagine you could convert this to use in PhotoShop easy enough. This was shot at Old Tucson (http://oldtucson.com/), a fun place to visit if you like old westerns. They have street shows with stunt actors, along with some really neat exhibits. DRKIRD, I like the idea of coloring everything but the people. may just have to give that a go!

AlohaJim Loc: Retired. Hawaii >> N. Arizona.

Nice work.
For myself, I usually use Photoshop Cs6 layers and masks, opacity for subtlety.
aloha
jim

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

ncammack wrote:

Hello all, br This was done with GIMP from a tutor... (show quote)

That's is not photo coloring and the picture did not look as such! So, it is in fact what I thought it was, it started as a color photo. Photo coloring is when you start with a pictured that is all black and white, like an old one from the film days and then put in your own colors to make it look like a color picture!

fuminous Loc: Luling, LA... for now...

Yup... was looking forward to the smell of lacquer- sometimes it dries on your hand and sticks cotton ball tendrils to you- and Marshall's Photo oils... It was fun back in the '60's and 70's... wouldn't spend any time on it now...

speters wrote:

That's is not photo coloring and the picture did not look as such! So, it is in fact what I thought it was, it started as a color photo. Photo coloring is when you start with a pictured that is all black and white, like an old one from the film days and then put in your own colors to make it look like a color picture!

fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

I thing you did a wonderful job. Good looking image.

Carolina Wings Loc: Flew from North Carolina to Pennsylvania

ncammack wrote:

Hello all,

I thought I would try my hand at coloring a photo that I shot, here's the end result. This was taken at the Old Tucson Movie Studio in Tucson, AZ. I would be interested in seeing how others go about accomplishing this task.

Neil

Nice shot and nice work!

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I love doing it by hand. I have never done it via computer. And yes, you can still purchase Marshall oils and all the peripherals.

edrobinsonjr Loc: Boise, Idaho

ncammack wrote:

Hello all,

I thought I would try my hand at coloring a photo that I shot, here's the end result. This was taken at the Old Tucson Movie Studio in Tucson, AZ. I would be interested in seeing how others go about accomplishing this task.

Neil

I like the picture but "photo coloring" is what we did back in the day to color portraiture with Marshall Oils in the studio I worked in.

Ed

DanielB Loc: San Diego, Ca

I think it would have been interesting to see it in reverse with the actors in B/W.

ncammack wrote:

Hello all,

I thought I would try my hand at coloring a photo that I shot, here's the end result. This was taken at the Old Tucson Movie Studio in Tucson, AZ. I would be interested in seeing how others go about accomplishing this task.

Neil

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

ncammack wrote:

Hello all, br This was done with GIMP from a tutor... (show quote)

I have done that and i still do not know where to find the overspray with tooth to use pencils on. I use chalks and colored pencils back when. I got a print of the year award for it as the entire club thought it was printed in color. I shot it in B&W then printed the shot and brown toned the print before I started working on it. So I did make the print but not in color as I added the color by hand. It takes hours to do and you have to lock down the chalks and pencil with spray lacquer before you can rest a hand on the print otherwise you might smudge the work you just did. Almost like paint by numbers without the numbers. To match color you would want a color print as a guide sometimes. I have been thinking of trying it in Photoshop.

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

AzPicLady wrote:

I love doing it by hand. I have never done it via computer. And yes, you can still purchase Marshall oils and all the peripherals.

I would like to know where to find the spray lacquer with tooth. I used chalk and colored pencil and locked it down with spray lacquer with tooth so the pencil or chalk had something to cling too. Other lacquers usually leave a slick surface too slick to use pencil on. Pleas let me know. I remember the Marshal oils and when done it looked like a painting. I like that too. Seems like a lot of the new generation has left real art alone and prefers gaming to time consuming real art. We will leave them a lot of images. I just wonder what they will do with them.