Uncreative Labs

Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 169 Location: behind you!

Want to re-color that old photo? Try this program (results have been mixed for me).

http://www.recolored.com/

Please post any good recolorings you get. (I will)

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download is grayed out.

Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 169 Location: behind you!

works for me.

here is the direct link

http://www.recolored.com/files/RecoloredBeta060.zip

Guest

thanks, i managed to get the program.

Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 169 Location: behind you!

I'm working on a large photo right now. Looking real good so far. Will post it when I get it done (before and after).

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ok sounds like a lot of work, I will hook up my wife's wacom art pad and let HER try it.

Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 169 Location: behind you!

wdegroot wrote:

ok sounds like a lot of work, I will hook up my wife's wacom art pad and let HER try it.

It is a lot of work. Colors keep bleeding over. I'll try to finish up tonight with the photo I have (already have over 7 hours into it).

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:57 am

This is really hard, but those samples look awesome. I'm not an artist though, I guess that would help.

Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 61 Location: sunny AZ

I think that picking the picture you want to recolor is really important! use one with lots of contrast, not much grayscale.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:04 pm

I'd rather have a proggy that does all the coloring if u tell it one color that u know is right like a mailbox car or the like that u are shure of and than it should be able to give the rest of the colors in the pic depending on the grey tone.

Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 169 Location: behind you!

bear wrote:

I'd rather have a proggy that does all the coloring if u tell it one color that u know is right like a mailbox car or the like that u are shure of and than it should be able to give the rest of the colors in the pic depending on the grey tone.

That would be a bit dificult as grey scale is part of the normal color scale. What color would the streets be if you said the grey grass was green? Perhaps a blue or blue/green?

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:42 am

Way back when newspapers teleprintered photos that was what they did, sent B/W and
circeled an area and wrote red or what ever it was and I think it is the same way when they turn old B/W movies into color if u know the correct color for one area when one should be able to get the rest correctly using the different shades of grey to determin the right color.