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EZeemering

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  1. Hmm I find that lanczos works better for downsizing. I haven't touched bicubic in the last couple of builds tho.
  2. Should have started this project earlier, haven't seen the sun at all this weekend Hope to finish the whole project next weekend. In the mean time a side-by-side comparison.
  3. How can you not be interested in the (imo) best looking race car ever build
  4. Over time I have bought action figures solely for this purpose, but they are all still in the box hehe. Good stuff, and I really like the idea of a custom miniature studio.
  5. I started publishing the series. Since the pilots all fell between 10 and 15 May. But then, of course, people with more historical knowledge than me pointed out some facts and I found new uniform references. So even though half of them are finished now they still need tweaks here and there. Luckily that's no problem for AF
  6. Heh, you're on a roll. Looks like we have a new colourist in our midst
  7. That's a good start. But one layer won't cut it for such a hi-res image. Normally I go for 3 base layers of red, yellow and blue. Here's a good explanation https://wannabeanimator.tumblr.com/post/88311875187 on how to paint on said layers. After that it's just looking at a lot of reference photo's for the details. One thing that helped me a great deal was not looking for how-to-colourise tutorials but searching for paint tutorials, esp. oil painting. How they mix colours, and how to create certain effects can be applied to digital as well..
  8. Looking nice Gabriel. Nest step would be to bring more colour / tonal range on the skin. The persons look really flat now.
  9. Great elaborate post jepho. Brings a new perspective to think about. On a side note. The migrant mother is one of the more popular photo's to colour by new and experienced colourists. Which kinda surprises me. Why would you start on such a daunting image. Like I'm gonna pick up painting today and let's start with a Rembrandt. https://www.google.nl/search?safe=off&biw=1920&bih=949&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=3EvYWpqvIKnksAewi7sw&q=dorothea+lange+migrant+mother+colourised&oq=dorothea+lange+migrant+mother+colourised&gs_l=psy-ab.3...0.0.0.67958.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.bSgwMnpNpIc
  10. Started a new project this weekend. 17 more to go before May Focus this time is to try to get different skin colours for each individual, instead of using the standard 'same trick'. Took me quite some time to find photo's of modern look-a-likes. Gonna take a while before I publish them all but just had to post something somewhere
  11. That's the hardest part of colourising. The amount of research and trying to understand lighting conditions. Anybody can pick some colours and paint between-the-lines, but it's those final details which make or break the image. My photography background helps with the lightning, but knowing which colours to use is just plain ol' research and a lot of googling. Also you'd be surprised to see how much colour is lost in b/w images. Especially the reds. So don't be afraid to bring those back.
  12. Uhh .. it's England right? Looking good. Although the water would heavily reflect the sky colour.
  13. I guess you have read the q&a of Marina? She uses Photoshop the old school way (nothing wrong with that of course, it's the way I learned it 20 years ago lol). But now we have Affinity with more powerful tools. I can't remember the last time I used a pixelated layer for colouring. I now tend to stick on using masked adjustment layers with the advanced blending settings. Almost the same as luminosity masks in Photoshop but without turning the document into massive file sizes. Most of the time I leave the layer in normal blending mode. Darken, average colour and colour dodge are used from time to time as well.
  14. It's a nice quick technique among many others. But you need to be certain you pick the correct colour and you can't quickly change certain areas of the picture, if you change your mind later on, when working on two layers. In the end a good colourized photo depends on the overall synergy of the colours. It's great to achieve quick results on low-res images though. The downside of using said blend modes is that most of the time the b/w shines through. It's hard to explain what I mean exactly but in my colouring my goal is to remove that effect. The power of masking and layering is the non-destructiveness, which saves time on the long run.
  15. Thanks Sadly I can't upload the video because I don't have it. It's a streaming service and they will store the vids for 2 months or so. But I will do some new live streams with my work.
  16. Did this one a while back. I wish I had more time for this stuff.
  17. Ahh I'm on a laptop, now your beta comments make sense. So yeah there might be some technical differences between the 2 versions. But the ground basics apply to both. Yeah I use multiple points in my gradient, it will give more control and more effects. For example the base colour of metal is dark grey but the highlights are often blueish. I save the most used gradients, it just saves time.
  18. That's how I started. But there is no need to make a mask first. The adjustment layers are a mask themselves. Just add a Gradient, invert the layer (or not if it's not needed) and paint on it with the brush. But that's not a bad start. Better than most beginners. Most of the time they start with pixel layers and really oversaturated colours
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