good tutorial for colourize bw images?

[pixupdate]

Hi,

I'm searching for a good step-by-step-tutorial explaining how to colourize ancient b&w images. Unfortunatedly I found only photoshop tutorials but none for affinity photo? Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks Georg

[drippy cat]

Hi pixupdate. If you get completely stuck I cover restoring and colourising old photos on my Affinity Photo: Little Box of Tricks course over at Udemy. Unfortunately it's a paid for course so maybe consider it only if no one comes up with a free alternative.

 

...I'm not exactly salesman of the year, am I?

 

Cheers,

Simon 

[carl123]

There are lots of tutorials for Affinity Photo

These are just a few of them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCfYrQNjBBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDW_vn_kizY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-u-9yZtclc

 

 

[pixupdate]

Dear Carl,
thank you so much! I do not know, why I didn't find them. I googled several times. Maybe I just had the wrong words.
Thanks, Georg

[jer]

On 10/23/2017 at 10:09 AM, drippy cat said:

 

...I'm not exactly salesman of the year, am I?

 

Admirable, though! 

[pixupdate]

Here my first result. Any suggestions?

[drippy cat]

22 hours ago, jer said:

 

Admirable, though! 

 

Oh stop it, you big fluffy bear of a man!

[jer]

23 hours ago, pixupdate said:

Here my first result. Any suggestions?

 

@pixupdate  Yours looks really good! As a potential collaborator for ideas for colorization, have you seen this thread?

 

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/42794-ap-colorization/

 

You and @EZeemering might want to share methods and ideas.

 

 

[EZeemering]

@jer thx for the heads up.

 

You can get away with the Photoshop tutorials, the basics are the same really. You just have to translate it into the new tooling of Affinity. But I must say I haven't seen a tutorial yet which mimics my techniques. So yeah, I might do a tutorial someday.

[pixupdate]

Hi @EZeemering,
it is nice to hear, that you think about doing a tutorial someday. This would be so great! I have done some more photos since the first atempt you see above. It works quite well, but I still have problems with areas like the green and the dogs fur on this example.What could I do to make them look more realistic? Would you be so kind to share your workflow in colourizing areas like that? Thx, Georg

[EZeemering]

I use a gradient overlay as a base layer for the foliage. With a desaturated dark green for the dark areas and a bit more saturated green for the light areas. On top of that one or two extra layers for some variety.