This video was so fascinating to watch! It was an amazing insight into how these images are transformed. You did amazingly well on Andrew Jackson. What do you think your next project will be?
Thank you so much, that's very kind of you to say! Well I'm hoping to work on some smaller projects for a little while before diving into another project of this size. Are there any historical people/topics you'd like to see me work on? :)
@@JBColourisation a great and relevant project could be; Vivaldi. One of my heroes. But no real images of him like Bach and Handel... from painting and statues. From Vivaldi there is just one picture of him, of which its sure its him (the most used picture of him isnt maybe the authentic Vivaldi)... so that one authentic pic is above that some sort of charicature. So bringing that face back to some realistic proportions would be a great adventure in the first place. So there is waiting a wonderful work for you Mr JB ! :)) Good luck anyway !
@@JBColourisation please please PLEASE do Buddy Bolden. There’s only one image of him that’s very old and damage and would love to see a restored version of that as a jazz enthusiast!
Simply astounding what you did with the very damaged Andrew Jackson picture. And it's a pleasure to listen to your thoughts while watching you work. (You should have your own show on TV. I even have an idea for the premise ;-)
That's very kind of you to say! I actually have a video planned for later in the year which I've taken a lot of inspiration from longer form TV documentaries to create. i'm really looking forward to sharing it and i'll certainly be very interested to hear your feedback upon release as it's going to be a bit different from my usual videos, it's a bit of an experiment. (not that I plan to stop making my regular content)
@@opportunegrace6660 he looks like a shoulder to cry on, someone whom is able to be responsible, bring tea & sweetbread while we enjoy the sound of the Winds through the trees Care, looks like there's care in there
@@VincentGonzalezVeg our grandparents really love us. Our thoughts , these emotions you’re expressing shows that they are emotionally active in our lives
Fascinating! There is so much more to "colorization" than I ever knew. That term doesn't being to encompass what's involved in restoring these photographs.Thank you for restoring these people back to life, and for educating me in the process. Now I'm off to see your interview.
The first photo looks like a fairly recent painting in the end product. I guess because of the heavy repair that needed to be done with the “painting” tools at hand. The others look more like original photographs...
Yes, when there's extensive restoration it's always hard to strike that balance between keeping the integrity of the original picture and not having it be undermined by the damage. I'm still not entirely happy with that particular image but it's all a learning experience! Thank you for your comment! :)
Thank you so much for all your hard work on these projects. As a lifelong genealogist this means so much to historians and genealogists around the world to be able to keep visual history alive. You will be helping the entire world remember the reality of life.
I have a old photo of my grandfather and his 1949 Ford 4 door, do you think you could try to colorize it because me and family would love to have a photo of my grandfather and my moms dad and his car in color
Have you thought about older sports figures? There are a lot of legendary athletes who most of us only know as black and white figures. I personally would love to see some baseball players depicted in color! Thanks and great work!
Thank you very much for the suggestion (and Kind Words)! I have previously looked at Baseball players and I would certainly love to work on some of them moving forwards. :)
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I've noticed the color picture finally broke it's way with FDR. Yet he covered many years in history. How about colorizing some young FDR pictures? Would you do it?
I am curious how you know what exact colour the fabrics were and what colour the hair was? But great results they should be on display in all the History museums. Have you contacted any museums? Thanks for showing us your wonderful work.
Absolutely amazing work, to be able to bring color to something that has always been seeing black and white it actually helps you to connect to that time.
Thanks for your videos. Great to pick up some tips and techniques. Love that you are into the history too. I have just coloured some old black and white family photos in Photoshop and have been searching round for ways to improve.
Thank you so much, i'm glad to have been of help! I wish that more of history had been Photographed as I think it makes the past relatable in a way few other things do. I'm a bit envious of the people a few hundred years from now who will be spoilt for choice, 'historical' picture wise :).
I have always loved that photo of JQA. I know that people had to sit still for a time for photos to be clear, but it looks like he is lost in thought and would be jarred to attention when someone approached him.
My mind was blown when I saw the Andrew Jackson picture, even the picture itself. I never knew they had a picture of him and seeing the man in a picture made it feel similar to seeing Jefferson or Washington. Thank you for restoring these photos it makes the people come to life!
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Hi, I do the same with old family pictures. It's interesting how much things can be seen from it. For example, based on lighting and reflective material of tie, I could figured out the color of tie of my grandfather. Or when I colorized aunts jacket, I saw its acttualy jeans sweatshirt.
Excellent work, but as a photographer I always seem to miss a certain hue in the skin tones in these kind of restorations and I can't quite put my finger on it, but my feeling says it's a touch of blue in the highlights and the shadows.
You NEED to do this stuff with famous WW1/2 photos. Maybe it's because I'm a history nut for those wars but I think it's a really, REALLY great idea. Edit: Just checked your channel and saw you've already done this. Damn me and my habit of commenting without checking stuff
Excellent work as usual JB. Your Lincoln remains my favorite but I'm in awe of the Grant colourisation. The color pops, yet is "restrained" at the same time. The B&W photos always gave these presidents an otherworldly feel. The colors make these men so much more relatable
You're pretty much making my jaw-drop. Watching you restore makes me realize how lazy I've gotten in my own restorations. Relying too much on AI and ignoring the intricacies of layering. I feel like I was actually giving it more time and care when I started out, despite my current work getting more praise. You earned my sub.
There's a high-quality lithograph drawing of that Jackson photo, made in 1856 by Lafosse. It looks as if he was able to perfectly reproduce all the detail in the picture, before it was so heavily damaged. The main difference though is that the drawing replaced the black background with a white one, but otherwise it has incredibly fine and realistic detail in it.
First, thank you for all the time and work you dedicated to bringing history to life, this project especially. Second, how do you know, learn or perhaps, not so, simply suss-out for color details in the subject's eyes, hair etc. I understand if the hair in the photo is 'dark' a good starting place is likely 'brown'. But how do you know which shade or tone. Brown is an extremely complex color! I noticed a significant difference between the hair color detail between the Actress & Nurse videos which, I found both brilliant and logical. Bravo!!! So are you using a bit of artistic license on colors you can't specifically discern or is there some other way of selecting your colors.
Hello, I really like your work, is really interesting, as an history lover I found it wonderful, I really wish it could be possible to colorize photos of people in folkloristic costumes during the late 1800, I am really interest in that, I also like to discover detalis in things. I wish to talk about colorizing photos with you, thanks for this amazing work!.
Just watched your video on the one lady (where you forgot to make the flowers on head white ;-) and depressed by how much work it is just for the face, but it makes me realie how much work you put into these images. Out of curiosity, how do you obtain source images for the presidents? What sort of image size/resolution, or do you get the negatives youself from some official library? Or did you just google image search :-) (and how does one scan a glass negative? on a photocopier style scanner? Are there film scanners for large format film? (mine is limited to 35mm).
It would be great if you could colorize photos of famous people from the earliest days of photography, like some of the surviving men who signed the Declaration of independence. I believe that a few of them lived into the 1820s.
How do you know what skin tone to use? Obviously you know they are caucasian, but what led you to decide on the specific amount of "sun exposure" (for lack of a better phrase) or just a darker shade of caucasian skin? This is absolutely not a criticism, your work is incredible and you are obviously exceptionally talented and focused on the details, I am just curious.
It's sad that we have lost touch with a lot of these older presidents and their legacy on our country's history. Not many Americans know more about Taft than his obesity, and the impact he had on labor laws or foreign policy is largely forgotten in national consciousness. Sometimes all it takes is a photograph to get someone interested in a historical figure. What you're doing is amazing work.
That depends a bit on the image. what i'll sometimes do it use the Burn tool on a duplicate of the original layer, that way I can bring down the exposure on just a few places. Otherwise, and this is probably the method i use the most, I make brightness adjustments to the overall image, using an adjustment layer such as Curves, and I then use the 'Blend-If Tool' in the blending options menu to have that exposure lowering adjustment only affect the brightest parts of the image. :)
I will say I was quite surprised that the Presidents hadn't been covered in this particular way before by someone else. One interesting personal aspect for me was how much I learnt about both the American presidential system and the Presidents themselves while working on this project. I hope that other people from outside the US also gain some similar educational value from what I've done! :)
Great video! I had two questions for you. 1) Is it a lot of work to colorize photos? 2) How do you know where and what colors should be placed on a photo?
Hi thanks for explaining and your tools, I'm beginning in photoshop I have an old pucture of my aunt she's dead recently can you please restore it for me or help me I can't do it thanks in advance!
I realize there would be issues with the various cameras used for taking each picture not to mention the developing processes over the years; however, I always imagined that one would be able to take the scale in the picture of black to grey and then to white and assign each a hue of colour. At that point, a computer would be able to scan the picture pixel by pixel and come up with an semi-accurate colour picture of some sort. Well, maybe some day. 🤓
Was just thinking about how in these old photos, people didn't smile, because it was a serious occasion to have your photo taken. Imagine if we didn't know what Teddy Roosevelt's smile looked like. How many of these other portrait subjects had defining smiles that we have no idea about?
@@sirruadhri3316 i’m not very sure because i didn’t get to know a lot about him yet. i just recently knew about this, all i know is that i’m related to him in some way, maybe a distant relative
