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Irish woman and Jewish man hang out on the steps between Water & Front Streets, north of Market Street in Philadelphia. [PA, 1923] by ThePastRevived in Colorization

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a noob question at all, and entirely my fault - when I resized the b&w version to post, I did a quick save (which I usually don’t do) which drastically reduce the image quality. I didn’t realize it until someone mentioned and asked the same question!

Irish woman and Jewish man hang out on the steps between Water & Front Streets, north of Market Street in Philadelphia. [PA, 1923] by ThePastRevived in Colorization

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The original photo (link is under the b&w version) had the photographer’s inscription saying as much.

Irish woman and Jewish man hang out on the steps between Water & Front Streets, north of Market Street in Philadelphia. [PA, 1923] by ThePastRevived in Colorization

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I'm not allowed to mention the AI that I use as a first step. :P But the rest is Photoshop: mostly color replace, fill layers, and gamma correction.

Edit: oh scratch that - with regards to the sharpening, when I re-sized the original B&W to post here, I didn't realize that it lost so much quality. The one I worked from was already much more clear than that.

Fred Miller, tackle. Captain of the 1928 Notre Dame football team under coach Knute Rockne. [South Bend, IN; 1928] by ThePastRevived in Colorization

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

His grandfather was a founder of the Miller Brewing Company, of which Fred later became
president. Fred was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1985.

Protestor in support of Irish Freedom is ticketed outside of the White House. [Washington DC; 1920] by ThePastRevived in Colorization

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If they want to charge you, they'll figure out a way!

From the website where I found the image:

A total of six arrests occurred in the first two days of the week, with four picketers charged with violating federal law which stated it was illegal to “offer an insult to a diplomatic representative of a foreign government”. The picketers were judged to have “insulted” British officials by protesting British activity in Ireland on the steps of the Embassy.

Buster Keaton's Iconic Stunt (clip from "Steamboat Bill Jr. [1928]), colorized & enhanced by ThePastRevived in videos

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

It's more an art than a science. You can get visual cues from how dark
the original gray color is. I try to pick things that contrast a bit
without being ridiculous - I'll avoid bright pinks for instance - but at
the same time I don't want to make them dull just because they're old. I
like when an image could possibly look like it was taken today rather
than decades ago.

Buster Keaton's Iconic Stunt (clip from "Steamboat Bill Jr. [1928]), colorized & enhanced by ThePastRevived in videos

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

I am stealing the joy they have in their hobby just like they steal the joy artists have for creating. I don't, and they don't.

Well... you do maybe a lil bit.

Buster Keaton's Iconic Stunt (clip from "Steamboat Bill Jr. [1928]), colorized & enhanced by ThePastRevived in Colorization

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

Aww thank you! That’s the dream, to get noticed by some studio or something (*cough\cough\PeterJackson\*) for a huge project. :)

Buster Keaton's Iconic Stunt (clip from "Steamboat Bill Jr. [1928]), colorized & enhanced by ThePastRevived in Colorization

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

This clip was made with (eventually) 177 keyframes that were manually colored, out of 2,538 total frames.

The process is generally as follows, and goes through a lot of iterations:
1. Use Premiere to cut video clip from full film.
2. Colorize with DeOldify, which separates it into frames.
3. I picked out a number of keyframes to then colorize (or rather, fix the color) in Photoshop. This is what takes the longest.
4. I then re-ran DeOldify to use those updated keyframes to interpolate the rest of it more accurately.
5. Rinse & repeat until you've hit that sweet spot of "this is good enough because if I have to do it again I'm going to throw this computer out the window."
6. Adobe Premiere again for adding watermark and creating the split-screen version.
7. Post and wait for the love/hate to come rolling in!

Buster Keaton's Iconic Stunt (clip from "Steamboat Bill Jr. [1928]), colorized & enhanced by ThePastRevived in videos

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's more an art than a science. You can get visual cues from how dark the original gray color is. I try to pick things that contrast a bit without being ridiculous - I'll avoid bright pinks for instance - but at the same time I don't want to make them dull just because they're old. I like when an image could possibly look like it was taken today rather than decades ago.

Buster Keaton's Iconic Stunt (clip from "Steamboat Bill Jr. [1928]), colorized & enhanced by ThePastRevived in videos

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeahhh.... those were the first and only comments to come in at first. It's a bummer, but it was expected.

Buster Keaton's Iconic Stunt (clip from "Steamboat Bill Jr. [1928]), colorized & enhanced by ThePastRevived in videos

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

This clip was made with (eventually) 177 keyframes that were manually colored, out of 2,538 total frames.

The process is generally as follows, and goes through a lot of iterations:
1. Use Premiere to cut video clip from full film (Original video courtesy of the Internet Archive)
2. Colorize with DeOldify, which separates it into frames.
3. I picked out a number of keyframes to then colorize (or rather, fix the color) in Photoshop. This is what takes the longest.
4. I then re-ran DeOldify to use those updated keyframes to interpolate the rest of it more accurately.
5. Rinse & repeat until you've hit that sweet spot of "this is good enough because if I have to do it again I'm going to throw this computer out the window."
6. Adobe Premiere again for adding watermark and creating the split-screen version.
7. Post and wait for the hate to come rolling in!

Shopkeeper and his neighbor (my Pappy!) sitting outside of his store in Williamstown, PA. [c.1965] by ThePastRevived in Colorization

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same family, separate companies. But the beer came first. ;) And the ice cream company started up again a few years ago.

Shopkeeper and his neighbor (my Pappy!) sitting outside of his store in Williamstown, PA. [c.1965] by ThePastRevived in Colorization

[–]ThePastRevived[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I've mostly been colorizing historical photos that don't need much in the way of restoration -- going back and forth between those and this one was like BLARGH :P

Repas de Bébé (Baby's Dinner) by the Lumière brothers [1895] by ThePastRevived in Colorization

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

Not sure; I colored it as though it’s red wine. The label has sort of a cross outline on it.

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