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[–]girlparachronism 77 points78 points ago

FIVE HOURS LATER!... My attempt.

I hope you like. Sorry it took so long! And for the record... I wish I'd done much better on the leg belonging to the girl on the far left.

Take care.

[–]nate132[S] 13 points14 points ago

Wow thank you so much. My family will love it. Thanks for taking the time to fix it :)

[–]girlparachronism 5 points6 points ago

Very welcome. :)

[–]romwell 4 points5 points ago

Definitely the best result here. Amazing work!

[–]girlparachronism 1 point2 points ago

Thanks!

[–]Babygoose 2 points3 points ago

Thank you for taking the trouble to fix the missing foot, it makes a big difference. Also, the colorization you did looks fantastic.

[–]girlparachronism 1 point2 points ago

No problem at all, and thank you!

[–]1st_DayOnTheInternet 1 point2 points ago

THIS IS AMAZING! My jaw dropped, awesome job.

[–]tannerozzy 1 point2 points ago

That is absolutely incredible

[–]Levzamox 36 points37 points ago

Done! The tear was tricky, but I think I did alright. the floor was the hardest part for me, what with the pattern and such

http://i.imgur.com/EWZhs.jpg

[–]zankfrappa 5 points6 points ago

Amazing job, this is front page material. Would you mind sharing your technique with us?

[–]Levzamox 7 points8 points ago

Sure!

The color was just done by hand with a layer set to the "Color" blend setting. I sampled most the colors from other photos so they would seem more natural (Color photos of other people, clothing from when it appeared the photo was made etc.) I find the Color blending more natural than say Overlay, personally, as when you're recoloring you generally only want to affect the Hue/Saturation and not the actual Brightness.

As for restoring the tear and such, I simply copied an arbitrary part of the floor on the other side, then flipped it and tried my best to line it up, while using a soft brush to erase it so it blended a little better. The perspective and relatively complex pattern made it difficult to do perfectly, and under scrutiny it's really easy to see imperfections. Oh and the shading under the backdrop to the left was just done manually.

The leg and shoe was actually taken from the little girl right next to her, then I cloned brushed the hole out so it looked more like what I imagined her other shoe to be (seemed something like a loafer or such, I donno I'm not great about shoes)

TL;DR: Color overlay for the color, and creatively sample as many elements from the photo as possible to restore, as it generally lends itself to more realistic results in my experience.

[–]nate132[S] 3 points4 points ago

Thanks!

[–]Levzamox 1 point2 points ago

No problem, gave me something to do today!

[–]atoMsnaKe 1 point2 points ago

sooo.which one is correct... i mean..the colors.... i thought you colorizing guys hads some way of knowing from the grey scale what color it is ...

I think yours is more real

[–]Levzamox 1 point2 points ago

Well there's no way to know for certain, but one can sometimes guess just by the brightness of the region. Very light grey pants on men tend to be Khaki would be an obvious one. Darker grey areas are often actually red, like in the skirt (though I could obviously be mistaken). Mostly though it is just guess work. The advantage of using a color overlay however, is that you are only adjusting the hue/saturation, so you can more easily find a color that looks natural.

[–]SolomonKull 33 points34 points ago

I am not an artist, but this is an example of what can be done in 10 minutes. I hope you enjoy:

http://i.imgur.com/8OkNg.jpg

[–]Guessed 19 points20 points ago

This is a good start! Even with aaOH GOD HER FOOT

It looks a little jarring how some of their skin tones are greyer than others', though.

[–]WILDCA 2 points3 points ago

Some of them are ghosts.

[–]SolomonKull 0 points1 point ago

My first attempt at colorizing a b/w image, and I have essentially no editing skills (hence the foot). I just hope someone can come along and do a proper job for this guy.

[–]nate132[S] 7 points8 points ago

That's pretty good. Thanks!

[–]SolomonKull 1 point2 points ago

I've never tried to do that before, so I hope you can understand the poor quality of the finished piece. I just wanted to see how hard it would be to try, and apparently it isn't too hard.

I need to brush up on my color theory and shadow/lighting abilities.

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points ago

This is a beautiful photograph. You're lucky to have such a great image of your family preserved so well. Wish I could help out with the coloring thing, good luck :)

[–]gophercuresself 10 points11 points ago

Just so you're aware, to do this well would be a huge job.

[–]SolomonKull 30 points31 points ago

A few hours at best. Look at what I was able to do in 10 minutes, and I have never done anything like this.

http://i.imgur.com/8OkNg.jpg

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points ago

This should be higher. I mean, its the actual response to the request.

But no, the racist bullshit goes straight to the top!

[–]girlparachronism 12 points13 points ago*

I'll give it a shot. Will post in an hour or so.

Edit: Taking awhile longer than I thought. :) Still, I'll finish it. Hopefully by tonight.

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[–]nooodl 109 points110 points ago*

Not cool.

(EDIT: the guy MS Painted badly drawn stereotypical Asian faces over the picture)

[–][deleted] 226 points227 points ago

Wow, you are a racist disrespectful piece of shit.

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[–]RedditsRagingId 21 points22 points ago

Also note that the voting majority of redditors loved it, voting it up to at least +21 net (and probably a lot higher, given that it’s still at +15 even after being linked from SRS and worstof).

[–]superiority 12 points13 points ago

I saw it at +41 net.

[–]HorseFD 1 point2 points ago

Keep in mind that picrequests makes it very difficult to downvote somebody.

[–]Michael_Pitt 2 points3 points ago

How the fuck do you downvote when there is no button? I usually just go downvote one of their other comments.

[–]HorseFD 4 points5 points ago

If you install Reddit Enhancement Suite, you can un-tick "Use subreddit style" in the sidebar, which will re-enable downvoting. Otherwise, you can disable using subreddit styles in preferences.

Or, you can go to the user's comments page and downvote it from there.

I don't support subreddits disabling downvoting for comments. (In smaller subreddits, disabling downvoting for submissions makes sense, as one downvote can keep a post off the "hot" page.)

[–]aptadnauseum 0 points1 point ago

It's a cold world when Arthur Trollington is saving us from unnecessary curiosity about douche-bags.

[–]ArthurTrollington 2 points3 points ago

Actually, I just thought it was funny.

[–]waznt 4 points5 points ago*

lol, someone from SRS calling someone else a piece of shit, talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points ago

lol yes being rude when calling out racists is so horrible. much worse than being a racist.

ffuuuuuccckkkk yourself

[–]waznt 3 points4 points ago*

LOL, yeah because I said you were a piece of shit BECAUSE you were rude to a racist, or do you believe only people from SRS are against racism? Seriously, bullshit like this only works in your circle jerk of a subreddit, so can you just go back there and spare us your idiocy.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

Why are you so butthurt over srs?

[–]waznt 3 points4 points ago

Because the only thing worse than a uneducated troll is a self righteous uneducated troll.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

lol uneducated ok

[–]waznt 2 points3 points ago

lol yeah that is not quite the correct word to use. But considering all SRS ever does is self righteously troll, ban, and circle jerk it's hard to take them seriously.

[–]RattaTatTat 114 points115 points ago

YOU'RE SO EDGY WITH YOUR RACIST ASSHATTERY~

[–]zankfrappa[M] 99 points100 points ago

This kind of "humor" doesn't belong here.

Not that it makes much of a difference but you have been banned from this group.

[–]RedditsRagingId 44 points45 points ago

This kind of "humor" doesn't belong here

The upvotes disagree. Are you new to Stormfront, I mean reddit?

[–]Ortus 2 points3 points ago

So let me get this straight: Outside of your little circlekerk, a mod, despite popular approval of a shitty post, uses his mod powers to delete it, thus enforcing a mod style based in the same principles your little circlejerk is based on.

You then proceed to mock him for it. There's really no winning with you people.

[–]senae 14 points15 points ago

Ha, he actually was you...

Wait, you link from worstof too? you never let me know the instant my "kill 90% of the cis men" comment was linked there!

[–]rabblerabble2000 11 points12 points ago

Hitlarious also links to Subredditdrama. He's a multifunctional bot.

[–]JTHipster 12 points13 points ago

And yet he cannot love.

[–]rabblerabble2000 7 points8 points ago

Now I feel sorrow for him.

[–]Levzamox 1 point2 points ago

Working on it! Also trying to restore the torn parts as well as I can. It's been a few years since I've attempted something like this though, so it might be an hour or two,

[–]Death_To_Your_Family 0 points1 point ago

How come only one is smiling? I thought smiling was popular in photos by the 60's.

[–]sonofspermcube -2 points-1 points ago

Your grandpa (?) bears an uncanny resemblance to Park Chunghee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:President_Park.PNG