Colored photo(s)

[RMJ]

Decided to try something new for awhile...

There's few very nice black & white photos of Lili. Wondered how they might look when colored. (There's actually color photos of same session, so strictly speaking I know how they would look like but I wanted to make my own versions.)

I'm not gonna bore you with more boring details... So here is the photo:
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/1615/rmjalizeecoloredhq0986ue.th.jpg (http://img473.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq0986ue.jpg)
It's 50% of original size. I will give out the full resolution later. :) I also got rid of some grain in the photo, but not all (didn't want to lose any details).

And small reference picture of the original b&w photo (25% of original size):
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7549/rmjalizeecoloredhq098orig4hl.th.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq098orig4hl.jpg)

How do you like it? Any complains?

[Snatcher42]

Cool. 8)
It's similar to something mot did once:
http://www.alizee-forum.com/ltopic,10785,0,asc,0.html

[robodesign]

Pretty nice! Congrats.

Suggestions:
1. Her hair is way to reddish/bright.
2. Her lips are too vivid :).

That's about all.

[Nestonia]

hahaha, pretty cool... go on guys

[RMJ]

Snather

Oh wow, I have missed that thread totally! Thanks for the link.

I got the same photoshooting session on the process which Mot has done there. :) Oh well... It won't hurt anyone to finish them. :)

[Pistacho]

RMJ, it's cool!!! Hope see more! :wink:

[UK Fan 2003]

Decided to try something new for awhile...

There's few very nice black & white photos of Lili. Wondered how they might look when colored. (There's actually color photos of same session, so strictly speaking I know how they would look like but I wanted to make my own versions.)

I'm not gonna bore you with more boring details... So here is the photo:
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/1615/rmjalizeecoloredhq0986ue.th.jpg (http://img473.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq0986ue.jpg)
It's 50% of original size. I will give out the full resolution later. :) I also got rid of some grain in the photo, but not all (didn't want to lose any details).

And small reference picture of the original b&w photo (25% of original size):
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7549/rmjalizeecoloredhq098orig4hl.th.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq098orig4hl.jpg)

How do you like it? Any complains?

^Wow RMJ, that's well good !

Her hair seems to have a purple tint to the colour of it, but other than that it looks so, so cool !

[CZESTER]

Great work RMJ :bounce:

[Petsku1]

You've done a great job... but James is right, the hair color is too light. Keep on working with them 8)

[RMJ]

Yup, the haird color isn't what she normally wears... But I kinda like the reddish tone. Pretty good looking. :)

Could try something darker with next ones, tho.

[quentin lee]

One thing I noticed right off the bat was her teeth.. they are discolored.

But after comparing the two photos, you made a big mistake.

Her arm on the left is not colored pink but rather the pillow behind her is.

makes her look deformed. If the hair, teeth, and this descrepency was corrected... I think it would be a classy job.

[RMJ]

One thing I noticed right off the bat was her teeth.. they are discolored.
Yeah, I think they are still too bluish. I checked her teeth color from several photos and used it, but somehow they still come too bluish. Maybe it's some other filter that changed it. Need to look into it.


But after comparing the two photos, you made a big mistake.

Her arm on the left is not colored pink but rather the pillow behind her is.

Woah, you are absolutely right! I wonder at what point I did that mistake. Must have be mistake in my masks. Her arm's and pillow's color is really swapped.

[RMJ]

Ok, I fixed the photo. Also did some color changes (like the hairs).

http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/1615/rmjalizeecoloredhq0986ue.th.jpg (http://img473.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq0986ue.jpg)

edit:
Gah.. Fixed it again. The teeth were way off, kinda greenish...

[Defcon 6]

very cool work. I wish my photoshop skills did not suck :lol:

[ArlettyFan]

Lol green teeth!

I couldn't do that kind of work.

[quentin lee]

Yeah, well she just got done eating a popsickle. =) Looks alot better RMJ.

[tern]

Yeah I like it a lot. Very vivid black hair but awesome quality. I like to see these things. It's like seeing a book you read as a movie because it's always fun to see someone's interpretation of something you've imagined. :mrgreen:

[eric]

very cool work. I wish my photoshop skills did not suck :lol:

http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop/photography

I use this site if im stuck, I got it from my webdesign teacher.. And hes real good!

I bet hes the one making the fake alizee porn pics :lol:

[RMJ]

Ok, here's second colored HQ photo.
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/74/rmjalizeecoloredhq1008pn.th.jpg (http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq1008pn.jpg)

Original:
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8585/rmjalizeecoloredhq100orig3nm.th.jpg (http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq100orig3nm.jpg)

Comments welcomed as always. :)

[tern]

GJ, looks like you managed to color inside the lines.

[RMJ]

GJ, looks like you managed to color inside the lines.
:lol:

Now I feel like 3 year old kid with coloring book in hand. :)

[tern]

Hah, I was just saying that because of how impressive it is that you got her fingers colored right between her hairs. I dunno how you do that because I would figure this is done by selecting an area and then coloring it according to the black and white contrast. It must have been very hard to match the color with the rest of her.

[Kyoshiro]

RMJ, That's just great.... how in the world could you do that!? :shock:
Nice pics anyway... 8)

[RMJ]

Third photo from that photoshoot:
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8057/rmjalizeecoloredhq104rh9.th.jpg (http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq104rh9.jpg)

And the original for the reference:
http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/9367/rmjalizeecoloredhq104orig9gr.th.jpg (http://img483.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rmjalizeecoloredhq104orig9gr.jpg)

This was quite fast to do as it has fewer details (especially when comparing to the second photo).

[Nestonia]

look what i did, i changed colored pic into black and white

http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/3600/japan439ya.th.jpg (http://img467.imageshack.us/my.php?image=japan439ya.jpg)

http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/5917/japan4337hi.th.jpg (http://img467.imageshack.us/my.php?image=japan4337hi.jpg)

[Kyoshiro]

RMJ, good work again :)

And Nestonia... ehh, nice work too... i guess...

:lol:

[Bizz]

black and white is best

it is more artistic

[Moco]

Good stuff, RMJ. I think if you want another challenge, you could try coloring her hair, because it isn't exactly black. It's more of a dark brown. And like all natural hair, it's not the same shade in all places. Would be cool to see you try that. :wink:

[ArlettyFan]

I'd like to see you SHUT UP

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3821/28ct.jpg

just kidding :P

[Señor Villa]

RMJ, you did a very nice job. I wish I could do that too.

[RMJ]

Good stuff, RMJ. I think if you want another challenge, you could try coloring her hair, because it isn't exactly black. It's more of a dark brown. And like all natural hair, it's not the same shade in all places. Would be cool to see you try that. :wink:
Yup, most of the time it isn't as dark as in my pics. But I kinda like it. I also liked the reddish color I had in first version. :)

The color in my pics isn't actually excatly black. It's just very, very dark brown (in shadows it becomes pretty much pure black. Especially in the contrast enchanced versions I posted here). Kinda like in photo in your avatar. She had very dark hairs in that photshoot. :)

I could use slightly lighter color in next one. It wouldn't get so dark if I have to do contrast enchancement again. It's actually quite easy to change ones you get masks done. So, I can play with different colors to test them.

Coloring her hairs to be not so uniformaly colored is very tempting idea. But it's also somewhat more work. That's because the colors woudld have to follow the lines of her hairs. And tracking each of them is lots of work. :) It was already quite a job to et her fingers in the hairs to look as good as it looks now in the second photo. But well... I might give it a try, too. I ain't afraid of work. What ever makes her look good is ok to me. :)

There's actually one more problem with those hairs... Because she has dark hair in nature, the b&w photo becomes very dark in her hairs. The photo losts the fine details. So, if I go very light hair, I'd have to draw new details for her hair.

[Q2k]

I was bored so I done this

The original
http://upload8.postimage.org/118593/alizee77.jpg (http://upload8.postimage.org/118593/photo_hosting.html)

My own

http://upload8.postimage.org/118606/alizee77copia.jpg (http://upload8.postimage.org/118606/photo_hosting.html)

[william hall]

Nice one Q2k, i'm surprised this hasn't been done before as it's a really nice picture of Lili. Thanks for sharing it with us. :wink:

[Señor Villa]

Nice job Q2K.

[paleddy62]

Awesome for your first attempt Q2k......I do personally feel that the the lips are too red...but still oustanding work. Thanks for sharing.

[Eril]

Colored pic really good....I LIKE IT...thanks Q2k

[maroxx]

yeah, great pics RMJ and Q2K, keep 'em coming

[AlphaDevil2]

Yeah, I too like paleddy62 feel that the lips are too red in the context of the pics. Whether it is this I don't know, but it don't look right to me :blink:

Nevertleless its a nice effort Q2K

[RMJ]

Umm... Since these photos surfaced once again.... I took the liberty and fix my own work !

I wasn't never really satisfied with them so... Here's re-colored photos.

From nonobjective point of view, fucking awesome ones, I'd say...

High resolution (1300x850) versions from my site. Click link or the photos to get in right place :

http://www.3rdw.net/alizee/photos.php#g5


http://www.3rdw.net/alizee/graphics/misc/rmjalizee_colored_HQ_098_v2_small.jpghttp://www.3rdw.net/alizee/graphics/misc/rmjalizee_colored_HQ_098_orig_small.jpg
http://www.3rdw.net/alizee/graphics/misc/rmjalizee_colored_HQ_100_v2_small.jpghttp://www.3rdw.net/alizee/graphics/misc/rmjalizee_colored_HQ_100_orig_small.jpg
http://www.3rdw.net/alizee/graphics/misc/rmjalizee_colored_HQ_104_v2_small.jpg
http://www.3rdw.net/alizee/graphics/misc/rmjalizee_colored_HQ_104_orig_small.jpg
(http://www.3rdw.net/alizee/photos.php#g5)

[Brian01]

great job RMJ!! AMAZING!! I love the second pair! WOW!!! :D :D :D :D
lol sorry, im excited :P

[william hall]

Agreed, they are very nice indeed. :)

[tigra]

Oh... as it is magnificent in colour! Thanks RMJ!!! And what for the program, such things gets up? Simply smartly!!!

[Capn]

As I told you on the other forums I'm still extremely jealous of these

[vaandva]

Hey Capn... Hello.
Don't you want to go here
http://www.alizee-forum.com/showthread.php?t=19967
to present yourself ?

[Orion]

From nonobjective point of view, fucking awesome ones, I'd say...

Understatement! :wub:

P.S. . . . . don't lsiten to Bizz :lol:

[Amelie]

it is not that difficult to color the pic, when you have "RECOLORED".

[RMJ]

Unfortunately mathematical algorithms can't do well enough.

Even if you'd use program like that, you'd have to do lots of manual correcting for it to make it look even close to right.

[Amelie]

that's true, RMJ, definitely. but programs like this just makes your work easier.

[jarmin]

How was it hapen?

http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/11/37/20/84/6510.jpg http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/11/37/20/84/jarmin10.jpg

[Brian01]

i think you can use Photo Shop to do that, RMJ has done quite a few of them, they look rly great.

[RMJ]

It's easy... just buy package of crayons and start coloring on your screen !

[Brian01]

It's easy... just buy package of crayons and start coloring on your screen !

im so gonna try that :shock:

[Orion]

looks like somebody already did . . .