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Offline Scorpio63

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« Reply #9 on: Thursday 24 July 14 16:12 BST (UK) »
Hi all and thanks to everyone for your comments, I really do appreciate the feedback, from each and every one of you.

I will be attempting some reworks on the photo shortly based on your responses, to see if I can improve my modifications to this classic photo even more.

Regards Allan ;)

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« Reply #10 on: Thursday 24 July 14 16:25 BST (UK) »
That is one incredible photo job.  I googled the original, so I see the contrast.  What a lovely photo to work on, and you have done a super job.  Thanks for sharing that.

I have photoshop, and have tried and tried and tried but to avail.  Just cannot get my head around that layer thing at all.  Anything beyond a little crop and adding some text to a photo is well beyond me. I even enrolled in a night class, but the tutor galloped through every session, and I was more confused than ever. 

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« Reply #11 on: Thursday 24 July 14 16:45 BST (UK) »
This is excellent work.
Did you flatten the layers at the end?

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« Reply #12 on: Thursday 24 July 14 17:12 BST (UK) »
Hi Jeanne and Jim thanks for the feedback ;)

Jeanne persistence will pay off, I to was confused with layers, but just kept on reading up on it via Google and eventually it started sinking in. Yes its a classic old photo to attempt a color of ;)

Jim I have not as yet flattened the layers, I know as soon as I do I will find issues in need of fixing and regret the whole flatten move.

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« Reply #13 on: Thursday 24 July 14 17:15 BST (UK) »
Looks excellent to me and must have taken quite a while: Just to see what it looks like with a different tint: How many layers have you used?

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« Reply #14 on: Thursday 24 July 14 17:32 BST (UK) »
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Jim I have not as yet flattened the layers, I know as soon as I do I will find issues in need of fixing and regret the whole flatten move.
You can unflatten it by going back a move in edit.
Unflattened pictures are massive.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
Census information is Crown copyright,from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

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« Reply #15 on: Thursday 24 July 14 17:34 BST (UK) »
Hi Japeflakes, and thanks, I used 173 layers to achieve this.

The quality of the original black and white photo was excellent and lent itself to an easy modification.

Having said that this took over 50 hours, my uncertainty and trips back to layers to blend them in again, once more work had been done around them probably took up a quarter of the time.

All the coloring was achieved using:

Coffee: Approximately 50 cups
Blend Mode: Normal all layers
Marquee Tool
Color Balance - Midtones - Highlights - Shadows
Opacity - Until the color tones "felt right"


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« Reply #16 on: Thursday 24 July 14 17:39 BST (UK) »
What prog. did you use?

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Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
Census information is Crown copyright,from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

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« Reply #17 on: Thursday 24 July 14 17:52 BST (UK) »
Jim I use Photoshop CS6, hoping to upgrade to the latest version of PS when funds allow.
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