Photo Restoration: Abraham Lincoln (1865) Civil War in Colour

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In this video I restore and colourise a photograph of Abraham Lincoln in Photoshop and reveal the secret he kept most close to his heart...A secret that even he was unaware he kept!
This photograph was taken just a few months from the end of the American Civil War and President Lincoln's life. It was really interesting for me to work on a photograph which so closely captures a mid point of history.
In this particular video I more closely show my working method for obtaining accurate skin tones in Photoshop.
For more information on the watch story featured in this video. An article on it can be found here:
www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
I'll also link to a colourisation of Mrs Mary Todd Lincoln by a fellow Reddit user (Klimbim) I was originally going to do a Mr and Mrs Lincoln video, with two colourisations, but Klimbim's work was so good it put me off the idea! ha ha
/ mary_todd_lincoln_1861
To see colourised pictures, including this one featured in the video, you can follow me at the following:
/ jbcolourisation
/ jbcolourisation
/ jbcolourisation
#Restoration #Colourisation #Photoshop

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8 июл 2024

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@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Hi, thanks for watching! If you'd like to learn about America's secret one day President click Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--hB2ntMC7_s.html

@Molly9Malone Месяц назад

Super interesting background information as well as remarkable colorization skill. Lincoln aged tremendously from what I gather due to the war and we are very fortunate to have preserved so many pictures of this U.S. President.

@beccabradley6002 3 года назад

this is actually so cool and im listening to all of the facts as i watch in awe hahahah

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Thank you so much! I have some even more surprising stories coming! :)

@marekeos 3 года назад

This channel is a hidden gem on RU-vid. Fantastic content. Very informative. Thank you for sharing. I'm finally able to colorize photos with your excellent tutorials!

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Thank you so much for such a nice comment! I'm glad that my tutorials were of help. If you have any suggestions for future topics, historical people or tutorials I'm always happy to receive them. As mentioned in this video Lincoln was a request initially :)

@marekeos 3 года назад

@@JBColourisation I just did a colorization of an old family photo which came out excellent. I've followed other channels their tutorials were not as precise. Truly very much appreciated. Done on a pro level. As for suggestions, I'm sure as I go through the rest of our photos, something may pop up that hasn't been covered yet. Your projects are truly inspiring. Thank you!

@TheMrFish 3 года назад

That's a cool watch and a cool colonization

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Thank you, very kind of you to say! :)

@GeorgePlaysGTA 4 года назад

very informative and interesting!

@revolutionaryape7568 2 года назад

Amazing work, always wondered how people do these!

@DP-dv3kk 3 года назад

stunning work

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Thanks! That's very nice of you to say! :)

@Rockonymous 3 года назад

Okay that picture looks a LOT better in color. In black and white it's just creepy af

@4assassinninja 4 года назад

Another great video!!!

@JBColourisation 4 года назад

Thank you so much! :)

@ontheroad_8132 3 года назад

Besides your colouring phenomenal techniques, I'd like to know how to make the same type of vintage looking background as that one in Abraham picture. Thanks a lot and please keep up your excellent work.

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Thank you very much! I've actually been really curious about how these Photographs were originally taken and how to also replicate them using Photoshop and such, it's certainly something i'll be looking at exploring in potential future videos! :)

@HobbyTimeRestoration 3 года назад

Amazing job, thanks for the explanation 😉👍

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Thank you very much! Also your channel is cool! :)

@HobbyTimeRestoration 3 года назад

@@JBColourisation Thank you 😊

@fletchercutting7301 3 года назад

Hey James, great videos! I recently started colorizing photos and one of the biggest problems I have is layering skin tones. I can get my base tone, but as I try to add the reds and oranges and blues on top of it, I can't get it to blend properly. I tried using a soft brush with low opacity and a 5px blur and the edge of the brush strokes are still clearly visible. I noticed you used quite hard brush strokes with a 55px blur and it turns out so nicely. Is 55px your standard? How do you figure out how much blur to use?

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Hi thanks very much! I don't tend to have any particular value that I stick to when it comes to blurring, although I would say i tend to stay somewhere within maybe a 30-150 range for the blur settings? I think being slightly on the higher end of blur is better than lower, particularly when you can erase parts again by painting black in the layer mask with an incredibly soft brush. With layering skin tones a lot of it is just down to practice and and I even now have more trial and error than I'd like with my own process. I'm sure you'll get much happier with your skin tones as you have more experience :)

@fnln544 3 года назад

James, Thank you for our respect to past President Lincoln. The background information about the watch is incredible; marks by watchmakers in time. Please tell me the repair and color program you use for me to repair family photographs. Please consider Teddy Roosevelt as a soldier; I'm still serving in the military and he's my favorite president. As he'd say: 'That's Bully!' Thanks, James. What you do is magical. Regards, Keith.

@MyroCraft 4 года назад

cool. photo as new. Is it possible to make the old out of a new photo? Just wondering

@JBColourisation 4 года назад

Hi! Do you mean it is possible to make a modern photograph look older? So make it look like it was shot on film in the victorian age? :)

@MyroCraft 4 года назад

@@JBColourisation Yes. I realized

@dslegend4ks163 3 года назад

Thank I wanted to see the Lincoln face really bad

@u.spresidents7088 2 года назад

“Abraham Lincoln was wearing a black suit” Him: Colors it brown

@cranjismcbasketball6346 3 года назад

he looks like my grandpa bruh

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Does your Grandpa also have a pocket watch with a secret message inscribed within?

@beccabradley6002 3 года назад

did ur grandpa also abolish slavery

@marianojimenezjimenez4346 3 года назад

Que pena que esté en inglés

@JBColourisation 3 года назад

Aprecio que obviamente no es tan bueno como estar en el propio idioma de alguien, pero siempre me aseguro de que mis videos tengan subtítulos manuales precisos. de modo que, con suerte, la función de traducción de Google funciona con cierta precisión para las personas. Gracias por tu comentario, James. (English: I appreciate it's obviously not as good as being in someone's own language but I always make sure that my videos have accurate manual captions. so that hopefully Google's translation feature works somewhat accurately for people. Thank you for your comment, James)

@Htl3648 3 года назад

Awesome video until you started getting into the other faces and the long beards

@Sahaib3005 3 года назад

Hello

@speedydragon12 2 года назад

Ærea

@speedydragon12 2 года назад

Æight

@zealyso2857 3 года назад

Lincoln is a darksin

@kaylemathewcomendador6964 3 года назад

I don’t get it.

@zealyso2857 3 года назад

@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 Wasn't he really black?

@kaylemathewcomendador6964 3 года назад

@@zealyso2857 I have not really encountered any sources saying that, so no (for now).

@zealyso2857 3 года назад

@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 I was scrolling on the dark web and saw it then when I searched it on Regular google it showed me another picture and on the dark web it showed me him and an article

@kaylemathewcomendador6964 3 года назад

@@zealyso2857 I don’t really go to the dark web often. So maybe that’s why.

@rubyredlopez4 3 года назад

Abraham looks to me like he is of 100% Mixed ethnicity, the 1st thing that's most noticeable to make me feel this way is His Hair It Most Definitely Looks To Have A 100% Ruff Texture. White people don't have hair like his.