Thursday, January 12, 2006
Cool! Free beta software to colorize b/w photos!
If you are like me, and have ALL THE SPARE TIME IN THE WORLD TO FRITTER AWAY, and if you also have boatloads of old b/w or monochrome photos, you will have some fun with this until January 31 when the free beta test runs out:
http://www.recolored.com/index.php
Here is one I did, of a friend in Chicago (late 40s? early 50s?) on a traveling photographer's pony:
Probably you--any of you--can do better. Maybe I used too complex a photo for my first try. I know that I had trouble getting the program to do things the same way the tutorial suggested it would, so maybe user-error is the trouble.
On the other hand, I have always had to fight my copy of PaintShopPro tooth and nail to get it to do what I want too. (Maybe it IS me....) Just for fun I tried to do the same kind of colorizing in that program, and it was nowhere near as good.
What I did like about this is that it's very good at finding the edges (all you have to do is approximate what you want turned pink, blue, etc.) and the overlaid color seems pretty natural--a tint, not a total fill-in. I don't know what they will be charging for it when they sell it, and I don't know if I would ever use it enough to make it worth buying. But I am wondering how it would work on colorizing line drawings...or augmenting color photos into something a little different.
But of course I can't try it now because I am supposed to be WORKING.
http://www.recolored.com/index.php
Here is one I did, of a friend in Chicago (late 40s? early 50s?) on a traveling photographer's pony:
Probably you--any of you--can do better. Maybe I used too complex a photo for my first try. I know that I had trouble getting the program to do things the same way the tutorial suggested it would, so maybe user-error is the trouble.
On the other hand, I have always had to fight my copy of PaintShopPro tooth and nail to get it to do what I want too. (Maybe it IS me....) Just for fun I tried to do the same kind of colorizing in that program, and it was nowhere near as good.
What I did like about this is that it's very good at finding the edges (all you have to do is approximate what you want turned pink, blue, etc.) and the overlaid color seems pretty natural--a tint, not a total fill-in. I don't know what they will be charging for it when they sell it, and I don't know if I would ever use it enough to make it worth buying. But I am wondering how it would work on colorizing line drawings...or augmenting color photos into something a little different.
But of course I can't try it now because I am supposed to be WORKING.
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