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Coloring Black and White Photos
devlobby.com — This is horrendously cool. You draw a bit of color on objects, and it colors them for you. NEAT.
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- weesee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0nice!
digg - sparkrainfir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0this looks really cool; i'll have to try it out later....
- linus7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Downloaded and its NOT a virus. A legit, very cool program. After playing around with it, it came to me that it's not a very "usefull" program, in the way that how often do you have a B&W photo/image, that you really want colored in?
Either way, very cool program, no installation, very simple to use, good digg! - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0+Digg!!
friggin AWESOME - artemus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Dunno, Still has that "bleached out" look, that you see in colored films. Even the more recent ones look like they are out of place. Looks like they are still straining to recreate the real thing.
- stlcadet11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1HOLY CRAP!!! DIGG++++++++, i wish i had many usernames to digg this cause this is so AWESOME!
- meekar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Awesome, too bad it's Windows only.
- *Ica*, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Pretty sweet and very clever.
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0nothing that Photoshop Can't do.. but anyone can use this software... amazing!
- .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.devlobby.com.nyud.net:8090/forums/showthread.php?p=599
Direct Download: http://www.recolored.com.nyud.net:8090/sa/RecoloredBeta050.zip - Pooavenger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1http://www.recolored.com/sa/sadl.php
next time link to site. - tetro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Sure you can do this in Photoshop, but this takes a fraction of the effort.
Stairs indeed. - iTony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What meekar said. I'll digg it anyway.
- davymac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0this is very nice.. im thouroughly impressed at its simplicity.. at a .5 beta stage.. its quite impressive and takes 1/10th the effort needed in Photoshop.. this could be a very useful tool for n00bs to photo editing.. or even for quickly messing with photos you converted to black and white
- Greg-J, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0vaporware/betaware
no digg. - cube101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I recalled the slashdot article, as ssh rdp did, at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/14/1753246&tid=152&tid=126 but this program seems to make use of those algorithms. Def. a good digg.
- tetro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Greg-J, have you even used this program? It does what it says and it does it okay. It could be faster, but it works.
- kdehead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0digg++
are there any colorised picture galleries? would love to see more of this. the WW2 shots are especially cool. - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The new colorization techniques are great these days. They don't have that corny looking pastel look of stuff done in the past. Gilligan's Island for example :).
If you guys like these pictures you will love the stuff on this site.
http://www.offcolorfilms.com/
I highly recommend watching Reefer Madness in color. Night of the Living Dead is great too. The guys pretty much pioneered the current digital colorization process. - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.legendfilms.net
Also this site. Same company but dealing in diffrent kinds of films. Off Color tends to deal with old copyright expired B movies. - firelion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is an incredibly easy piece of software to use. Kinda acts weird when you do dumb stuff like put 2 or more colors along the same path close to each other. Its cool that you can do this stuff without having to be a photoshop wiz. Now to colorize my entire deviantart gallery.
- fornulf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Two ink-stained thumbs up!
- iamtheshow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0another use for the program i could think of is from a designer's perspective - desaturate a colored picture, fill in your own stylized palette of colors, and integrate it into the rest of your design. easier than having to replace colors one by one. :)
+digg! - kamizu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0now that i see someone dl'ed it and it actually works, i can say: "sweet mother of monkeys!"
+digg for sure - stealthyslyth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That's pretty cool that someone made a program. Regardless it's still more fun to colorize B&W prints you made yourself with these oil colors.
Still dugg. ;) - faithlessphil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Utterly brilliant. This makes recoloring ridiculously easy.
- pelsen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice!
+digg - Shen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Screw recolouring, this could do loads for compressing images.
- selwyn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i don't think i'll ever need to use it, but i found it really really cool.
worth a digg. - jamester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice.
- fli7e, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just a heads up to everyone:
The algorithm takes a LONG time to execute on larger images. The bigger the dimensions of the image, the longer you are going to have to sit and wait, but be assured it works.
Should take mere seconds on 320x240 images, but on 1600x1200 it could take many, many minutes.
Also, this will max out your CPU, so if you are using a laptop plug it in. - notkevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome stuff if someone could adapt this into a photoshop plugin to do masking/ extraction it would be awesome
- en3r0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Wow, this is amazing!
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http://virtenu.com - funkysaggi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0while we are on photography check out www.purengage.com/thefunkeye
got some coloured, black and white and single tone images. - mGee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think this would be better suited as a photoshop plugin and I'd like to see it ported to mac.
- rtphokie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What this article fails to make clear is that this takes a lot of time to do well. Of the samples here, only the Einstein and landing craft photos are done well, the others are way to cartoony. Less is more when colorizing. Dont use such garish colors, especially for natural surfaces skin tones, foliage and grass.
No digg. I'll have to digg some good tutorials. - far2smart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I am currently working on a project that will transfer an entire image. It does not use Levin's technique. Instead it transfers all the content from an image of similar colour content then you can alter the swatches at a later stage. Example would be if you have a greyscale image of a forest scene, you would find another image that has similar colour content and merge the two to form a colour image. Reduces the time taken with manual colourisation by scribble technique.
Doing this as my Bachelors in Computing Science so should be getting reasonable marks if I ever complete it. - zelig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0(mock) surprise! No Mac version!
- jeffreym, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I'm against colorization in principle but a very cool program.
http://celestial-reasoning.blogspot.com - cheese06, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0wtf jeffreym i dont wanna see ur gay little ***** website.
- Jackolicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For your reference... since people think this is a photoshop clone..
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/ - vbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy whoa, that's pretty neat. I've got some old photos to play around with, too. That's just what I need to bring out the vibrant blue of Grannie's hair.
- ptree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Great find. Digg++
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool. If those pics were done with his program and not Photoshop, this is awesome. That picture of a Spit looks EXACTLY like early color slide/print films, I wouldn't have believed that it was colorized.
Has anybody tried out this program? If so, could you stick up some links to the results, I'm really curious to see how well it works in the "real world" - brettotte1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i've played with it over an hour to update an old photo of my bro & I as kids that has since turned red. it's an 8.5" x 11" photo & you can see the lines the frame has left on it from aging. here's what i have so far with only using my lappy touchpad in bed & not messing much with the skin colors:
Before: http://tinyurl.com/cjkw2
After: http://tinyurl.com/bv335 - pox05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thanks Jackolicious, that was an interesting link as well. got my digg.
- Crazyguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0maybe they can apply this to old movies and tv shows. Maybe "The Twilight Zone" in color.
- markperia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought this was another lame Photoshop tutorial but this is really cool.
- LiThiuMElectro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I thought this was another lame Photoshop tutorial but this is really cool."
i thought that to very nice find. This program looks neat and faster then photoshop for the coloration. Can't wait to try it my self.
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