Bogart Colorizations

[samppa]

Nice work bringing these b/w pictures to life

[Zungam]

Excellent work Tim! Makes me wanna practise some more

[Nightrider]

Great advice sauron, I'll have to remember it when I get around to trying colouring

[RookerDesigns]

I must say, I had a good time looking at all of these.. Great stuff

[Bunny Dojo]

QUOTE (GlobalCinema @ Aug 19 2012, 04:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

On a note for anyone out there, are there any guides to give some basics as to this sort of process and how to bring out such clarity and detail to B&W stills?

The High Pass filter sauron mentioned is definitely a great tool. That's probably the only "trick" that comes to mind. The rest is mostly just cloning out debris and adjusting levels and contrast. I think the color itself is a huge tool, since you can actually "create" detail. Here's an extreme example of a suit, in black and white versus color:

[attachment=22257:Colorize1.jpg]

That's using nothing but the "Color" blending mode, and suddenly you've added a huge amount of sharpness and information that couldn't have been in the black and white version.

QUOTE (chefjoe @ Aug 19 2012, 06:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

and now making his own fonts, that's it i'm through, hehe I'll never be like Bunny!

I'm not too fancy, it's mostly just based on the poster's fonts:
[attachment=22258:Colorize2.jpg]

Thanks for all of the encouragement, guys! I'm hoping to come up with a colorizing tutorial one of these days, once I figure out the correct process. It seems like the kind of thing that should take only a few layers, but I tend to pile up 20-40 layers trying to get skin tones right, so I don't think I quite have the hang of it yet.

[venome]

Mrs v loves the Casablanca image in Post #66, would you mind if she painted it on canvas?

[Bunny Dojo]

QUOTE (venome @ Aug 20 2012, 07:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Mrs v loves the Casablanca image in Post #66, would you mind if she painted it on canvas?

Wow, between your talent and your wife being a painter, that must be one very creative household. She's definitely welcome to use the image. I can PM you a larger / full-length / white background version if it would be helpful.

[venome]

That would be awesome thanks BD

[venome]

She is fairly new to painting, but shows a lot of talent already.. especially when doing portraits.

[Bunny Dojo]

Here's another one that's been in progress, The Maltese Falcon (from a Nikerun suggestion a long while back ).
It's pretty simple, so either a wild title treatment or an additional image is probably going to be needed to further spruce things up.

[attachment=22364:Maltese1.jpg] [attachment=22365:Maltese2.jpg]