Colorizing old photo - my first try

[tork73]

I used hues/saturation layers and colorized the following picture of my dad taken 50 years ago. I guess the fotball is too dark.


http://ans.hsh.no/home/tek/images/far-before.jpg
http://ans.hsh.no/home/tek/images/far-after.jpg

[Wendy]

Hi ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

Oh that is just suberb .. you really have done a great job on it. Its just the right balance of colours.

It must have take a lot of work !!

Wendy

[Tina_B]

Very nice work.

[Pauline]

you did a terrific job of it.

[John L Gray]

Welcome to the forum.
Very nice job of colorizing the image.

John

[sharlmitch]

Wow! Great colorizing! :)

Sharon

[kroberts]

http://bestsmileys.com/welcome/9.gif to the forum!

Great work!:)

[nkeevers]

Wow, you did a really great job! I love the colored photo!

[Rob1964]

Wow if thats your first try, I can't wait to see the next one.

[lindajay]

You did such a good job with that. I'm sure your family will love it. And WELCOME to the forum! Looking forward to seeing more of your images.

[Shari]

That was a wonderful job. I haven't tried colorizing yet. Kim - I love your welcome - and Tork I add mine.
Shari

[smiles]

Wow! What a fabulous job! Welcome to the forum! Do show us your next one!

[Rusty]

That's a wonderful job. For the football, you might want to try this. (I'm away from home and don't have PSE to try and provide a screenshot if it works):

Open a blank layer at the top of your layer stack. Make your foreground color brown; it'll probably take a dark brown because the football is so dark. On your blank layer, paint over the football with that brown. Zoom in and use the eraser to remove brown paint from anything other than the football. Change the blend mode of that layer to color.

If this doesn't work, no harm done because it's all on a separate layer that you can simply delete.

Rusty

[uniqcrafts]

Welcome to the forum!

Great picture, love the tone of the colors.

[twinma]

How do you add the color to the photo like that. It looks really good. thanks

[Wendy]

Hi Twinma ...

If you go into the Subscriber Area>Tutorials you will see one called Colourising a Photograph that will help you ... it shows how to colourise each individual part of the image ..

Wendy :)