Famous photos colored

[|Zach|]

I have never really thought about it much but I do suppose you could reverse engineer a shot based on the tones of the black and white to be in the ballpark of the white colors. Taking something from color to black and white creates a very specific imagine so theoretically you should be able to go backwards from there...but so much can change with the levels and filters. If you could guess with good accuracy one of the colors in the photo and work from there you could probably get good colors in relation to the tone of another.

Shit is all bottled up in my head.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

I have never really thought about it much but I do suppose you could reverse engineer a shot based on the tones of the black and white to be in the ballpark of the white colors. Taking something from color to black and white creates a very specific imagine so theoretically you should be able to go backwards from there...but so much can change with the levels and filters. If you could guess with good accuracy one of the colors in the photo and work from there you could probably get good colors in relation to the tone of another.

Shit is all bottled up in my head.

For some reason I have a hard time believing Churchill was wearing brown pants.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

I have never really thought about it much but I do suppose you could reverse engineer a shot based on the tones of the black and white to be in the ballpark of the white colors. Taking something from color to black and white creates a very specific imagine so theoretically you should be able to go backwards from there...but so much can change with the levels and filters. If you could guess with good accuracy one of the colors in the photo and work from there you could probably get good colors in relation to the tone of another.

Shit is all bottled up in my head.

I bet that they are off at least some, but still, it's cool to think about it differently.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I bet that they are off at least some, but still, it's cool to think about it differently.

Certainly.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

I have never really thought about it much but I do suppose you could reverse engineer a shot based on the tones of the black and white to be in the ballpark of the white colors. Taking something from color to black and white creates a very specific imagine so theoretically you should be able to go backwards from there...but so much can change with the levels and filters. If you could guess with good accuracy one of the colors in the photo and work from there you could probably get good colors in relation to the tone of another.

Shit is all bottled up in my head.

Well if you can de-bayer the color it should be possible to bayer the color to get it close. Work backwards from extracting the Luminescence.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Well if you can de-bayer the color it should be possible to bayer the color to get it close. Work backwards from extracting the Luminescence.

That was my first thought...and it still could true it is just that...there are so many ways the same image can be black and white after adjusting contrast...tones...highlights...a whole slew of things.

So my next thought is it prob can't be reversed that easy because you don't know if a recipricol process is a 1:1 match. However there is enough information to do what they did if you are really ****ing good and a bit artistic.