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By the way, if you're into scanning you owe it to yourself to check out this site: http://www.scantips.com/. Great stuff!
I finally decided on a sunset background, colorized to blue. As a final touch, I applied the "sharpen more" filter, which brought out much better detail.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with this result. This is the first time I've attempted anything like this. Next time I'll know to pay more attention to how dark the picture is before I tear into it. And I should probably have feathered out the selection a bit, it seems awfully sharp and there's a white line around parts of the selection (especially after sharpen more was applied). To give credit where credit is due, I got the idea for colorizing a photo like this from a tutorial at Abstract Dimensions. You can find it at http://psptips.com/5/phoman/ella.html. I had seen this several days before I found this photo, and just worked from memory. I didn't try to find the tutorial until just now when I decided I should give the credit. If nothing else, I learned what hue value to use from this tutorial. I didn't try to apply makeup like the tutorial does. |
Scanners. I've had mine about a year and really haven't done much with it. I found this picture of my old
friend Vicky from my Montana days. I took this picture in 1974 with the first roll of film I ever shot with my new
Pentax Spotmatic F camera. I know because that's the only roll of black and white film that ever went into
that camera. I scanned the picture using the black-and-white photo setting in VistaScan. I should have used
some gamma correction either while scanning or afterwards - I would have had a better final result with a
bit lighter image.
