by Bunny Dojo » Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:15 am
Nice work!
I'd go for a tutorial myself, but I don't really have a strict process down yet... it's a lot of fumbling and trying things until they look okay.
To add on to what you have here, one thing that comes to mind is getting your black levels all set. Depending on what kind of photo you're using as your starting point, you might have a lot of dark grays and no blacks, so you've got your shadows blending in with your midtones a bit. In this case, I'd call attention to the jacket, where you probably wouldn't have that plateau of nice brown. So, maybe something a little closer to:
Just a quick try, of course. The tricky thing about a colorization is that there's no real way to know what's right.
(But I suppose that's also part of the fun.
).
Edit: Or, if you don't want things to get too dark, manually add in the shadows that seem to make sense to you, so maybe add some extra darkness under his sleeve. Just boosting the black level as I did above, you can lose some detail, so it's a bit of a trade off, I suppose. :S
Nice work!
I'd go for a tutorial myself, but I don't really have a strict process down yet... it's a lot of fumbling and trying things until they look okay. :)
To add on to what you have here, one thing that comes to mind is getting your black levels all set. Depending on what kind of photo you're using as your starting point, you might have a lot of dark grays and no blacks, so you've got your shadows blending in with your midtones a bit. In this case, I'd call attention to the jacket, where you probably wouldn't have that plateau of nice brown. So, maybe something a little closer to:
Just a quick try, of course. The tricky thing about a colorization is that there's no real way to know what's right. :D (But I suppose that's also part of the fun. :) ).
Edit: Or, if you don't want things to get too dark, manually add in the shadows that seem to make sense to you, so maybe add some extra darkness under his sleeve. Just boosting the black level as I did above, you can lose some detail, so it's a bit of a trade off, I suppose. :S