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Colorize Cutiepie?

Started by Marydh, June 07, 2019, 05:32:21 PM

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Marydh

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


Jo Ann Snover

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.
Jo Ann

Candice

I concur with Jo Ann.  Going down to B/W isn't going to make that much difference.
Candice

Lynnya

Yup.. sounds like a good plan Mary.. look forward to seeing your final.. it's gonna be good  :up:
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Marydh

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. 😎


Mhayes

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.
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kiska

I would turn it into BW, as it was originally before being colorized. Then do sepia and colorizing. Might work?
kiska
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