Thanx for sharing: didn't know that and the images are of a great quality considering the time they were taken. Also artistically the are very well made. Not only the colour turn out very well, but also sharpnes and exposure are amazing.
Power lines?! They looked very out of place to me, I didn't expect to see something that I consider so "modern" in photos of what is essentially rural Russia. Then I read this link: //inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blelectric2.htm
I'm not too happy with the result especially the chair legs (It's missing one at the back for a start), however I hope this is something close to what you were looking for?
Wow, it's not my photo or anything, but I'm highly impressed!! How long did that take you?? The cleanup is beautiful and I'm always amazed when people are able to create things from thin air that look perfectly real and photographic, like the end of the umbrella and the front chair leg. Please tell us some of your secrets!!
Wow, it's not my photo or anything, but I'm highly impressed!! How long did that take you?? The cleanup is beautiful and I'm always amazed when people are able to create things from thin air that look perfectly real and photographic, like the end of the umbrella and the front chair leg. Please tell us some of your secrets!!
To be honest I'm not quite sure how long it took, all I know is its 1am and I'm still awake ;)
To get the missing bottom right hand corner I took a mirror image of the left hand side. Then used the clone tool to create a textured background. I then simply extended the umbrella using the clone tool, copying from other parts further up the umbrella.
As far the chair leg goes I dint really create if from thin air, I used 3 parts of the chair back and resized them and arranged them to look almost like a chair leg. I then dodged and burnt the area around the leg and umbrella to give the impression of shadow and to hide some of my mistakes ;)
Very nice work- now that you tell me how you did it I can look at it and see things like repeated patterns on the floor, etc. Very impressive!! Thanks so much for being willing to share.
I must say that I am impressed. Great work! I haven't had the patience to do this.
William, I have never really restored a photo like this before, I just started cloning out the scratches, it developed from there and to be honest it dint require any patience, the time flew by.
I have done that before as well- I'm a "whiz" at cleaning up shots, but I've never tried creating parts that aren't there before. And I agree, it's amazing how into it you can get. I don't even mind sitting in front of the pc for that long when I see the finished result. Sometimes I think I enjoy cleaning up old photos as much as taking new ones!
Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii's work is facinating and inspiring! What a great look at those times in vivid color!
Kinks! Great work!
Here is a photo of my grandfather, circa 1922 - he was born 1902 in upstate New York, USA, and lived there his whole 97 years.
I'd love to colorize this!
As I post this, I realize how I love B&W photos, yet, I'd love to colorize some old ones now because of this thread! Ironic! :)
Here is the color pictures, it took my day, but i made it!
Nice work kinks, I had a quick go at trying to add colour but found it hard to get the right colours, especially skin tones.
Originally posted by ahaze:
Very nice work- now that you tell me how you did it I can look at it and see things like repeated patterns on the floor, etc.
Hopefully you shouldnt find too many repeating patterns, I try and use short brush strokes and change my source very often to avoid this, as the human eye/brain is very good at spotting patterns.
