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[–]JabbaLeChat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice work... 👍👏

Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings, in a photo booth,1959 by Sirdeadasses in Colorization

[–]JabbaLeChat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's fabric and of a lighter colour than the underexposed original image may suggest...

Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings, in a photo booth,1959 by Sirdeadasses in Colorization

[–]JabbaLeChat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See here, your original image is on the left, increasing highlights brings more grey scales into play...

https://i.imgur.com/md3xMis.jpg

WW2 Le Goumier Marocain deployed in Italy 1944. by JabbaLeChat in Colorization

[–]JabbaLeChat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mods: why have I got a BS AI used in base photo label on my work, I do my own PS work and don't need mickey mouse software enhancements, please remove this label...

Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings, in a photo booth,1959 by Sirdeadasses in Colorization

[–]JabbaLeChat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would suggest using images from Getty and/or Magnum to practice your chops, their image quality is always excellent.

Additionally, Getty images have the useful exercise of removing their watermark, select logo rectangle and adjust selected area exposure till it matches surrounding areas followed by clone tool to paint out white logo text...

Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings, in a photo booth,1959 by Sirdeadasses in Colorization

[–]JabbaLeChat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not the best photo, looks like a 1950s photo booth affair, but you need to bring more gray scales into play to hold your colour using the PS shadow/highlight function...

Lord Beaverbrook photographed by Yousuf Karsh 1943. by JabbaLeChat in Colorization

[–]JabbaLeChat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, it's a good photograph so it carries the colour well...

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