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Title: Colorize Cutiepie?
Post by: Marydh on June 07, 2019, 05:32:21 PM
This is the original with color correction.  I'm wondering if I should turn it to black and white, get rid of the damage, then colorize  OR  fix it from here.
Thanks,
Mary
(https://i.postimg.cc/kBWXLynm/for-forum.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/kBWXLynm)
Title: Re: Colorize Cutiepie?
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on June 07, 2019, 08:16:05 PM
It's trivial to turn it into B&W at any point, so I'm wondering what the advantage would be of doing the repairs in B&W. Just looking at it, I think it's probably not going to make much difference in terms of your time spent either way

There's a lot to fix whatever the color, so why not start out trying it as is - if that works, you save yourself the task of colorizing it from scratch in the end.
Title: Re: Colorize Cutiepie?
Post by: Candice on June 07, 2019, 08:43:05 PM
I concur with Jo Ann.  Going down to B/W isn't going to make that much difference.
Title: Re: Colorize Cutiepie?
Post by: Lynnya on June 08, 2019, 08:38:07 AM
Yup.. sounds like a good plan Mary.. look forward to seeing your final.. it's gonna be good  :up:
Title: Re: Colorize Cutiepie?
Post by: Marydh on June 08, 2019, 12:54:06 PM
Thanks guys.  I was anxious to dive in so I just started fixing as is and it's doing fine so far.  I'm fairly sure I'll need your advice later. 😎

Title: Re: Colorize Cutiepie?
Post by: Mhayes on June 09, 2019, 01:13:42 AM
Mary, looks good. I would go with what you feels works best. I'm not sure I totally agree with what Jo Ann said: "It's trivial to turn it into B&W at any point." Maybe that means as the final restore? One reason to turn into a B/W and then colorize is that you will have a hard time doing a regular color correction on this one. This is an old photo that the color has been hand painted rather than a photo that had color to begin with. I think there's a lot to be said on how you first wanted to do it as it wll allow you to repair the damage and then do the color.
Title: Re: Colorize Cutiepie?
Post by: kiska on June 13, 2019, 04:38:52 AM
I would turn it into BW, as it was originally before being colorized. Then do sepia and colorizing. Might work?