My first attempt at Colorizing

[robb01]

This is my first ever attempt at adding color to a black and white photo. These are my great grand parents. Did I do okay at this?

 

[Rancor]

I'm a complete noob, but that looks amazing. I have albums of ancient photos of my relatives from the 'old country' and would love to do that to them. Did you use lightroom or photoshop, I have both.

 

[subscuck]

IMHO, it has the same feel as those old, hand colored prints. Well done. :thumbup:

 

[Trever1t]

I agree. I think you kept the photo true to original form. It's looks as though it was printed this way, well done!

 

[robb01]

I'm a complete noob, but that looks amazing. I have albums of ancient photos of my relatives from the 'old country' and would love to do that to them. Did you use lightroom or photoshop, I have both.

I did this in CS2, basically duplicated the original image, desaturated and made a new color layer for every detail, ie hair, eyes, clothes, flowers and painted each layer w/ what I thought the color should be