Taking requests on colorization

[robert hayden]

Hey everyone. I'm new to this forum, you may have seen my colorization of Ulysses S. Grant and Ambrose Burnside, however that's not all I've done, and it's not all I will do. I'm ready to color almost anything (to some extent, I will let you know if I can't do it due to certain things.). I have done a lot of coloring over the past year or so with a few different programs and some of my finest include

and last but not least - my entire history of colored images so far: http://imgur.com/a/kqi4A http://i.imgur.com/1LHme.jpg
I also colored http://i.imgur.com/ZzSDY.jpg while I was waiting to be approved.

Now I understand some of the colorings in my gallery isn't of Civil War personalities, I apologise for this. I hope it's able to be overcome.

Enjoy.

marvelous reults. You must be very proud of your efforts and results. I will look forward to seeing the Samuel Clements result. In simplistic terms, without revealing any trade secrets, could you share a description of this
process with an old man that dosen't text, facebook or twitter ?

 

[Zuzah]

marvelous reults. You must be very proud of your efforts and results. I will look forward to seeing the Samuel Clements result. In simplistic terms, without revealing any trade secrets, could you share a description of this
process with an old man that dosen't text, facebook or twitter ?

I already fixed the Twain photograph (Both of them http://i.imgur.com/tnaAu.jpg - http://i.imgur.com/j0ohU.jpg), I don't mind revealing my entire process. Do you know how Photoshop works? If you don't then it's a fairly complicated process for a computer illiterate person, no harm intended.

Essentially photoshop adds layers of colored light onto the image. Essentially the reason why images appear brighter and more alive when color is added to them is simply because they're plastered with colored light. The way I do it is judge by eyesight before I start anything and pick out my colors with a notepad file I have stored where color (hex decimals used to identify and find colors) codes are within. So I add 5-6 layers for each image (Usually for Union and Confederates I add one for Skin, Hair, Eyes, Uniform, and Brass objects.), and I assign skin color code to the skin layer (obviously), and then color the designated area, and I ctrl-click the layer (which highlights the color inside the layer and everything else is removed so I can tell if I have areas that I've missed.), I do this for all of them, then I adjust the lightning on the image so it isn't overly bright or overly dark either. Once you get in to it it's a pretty simple process that can take anywhere from 5 minutes to several hours on end.

 

[tmh10]

Wheres that image from? Never seeen that one before...

The picture is from Brandy Station 1864. It was my first real post when I joined up. With the help of the board we decided the officer in the light color coat is General william Averell.

 

[ole]

Dueling colorizors!

 

[Zuzah]

Henry Jackson Hunt

 

[Zuzah]

Forgot to add these 2.

James Garfield

Oliver O. Howard

 

[JWheeler331]

Nice work as usual.

 

[ole]

Notice that Garfield's (Brigadier General) buttons are in pairs, but Howard's (Major General) are by three.
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[Zuzah]

Notice that Garfield's (Brigadier General) buttons are in pairs, but Howard's (Major General) are by three.
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Oh yeah, I hadn't noticed that, lol. Hunts' buttons are also in threes.

 

[Tin cup]

Can you do something with Gen Cleburne?

I have been told by someone who knows more than me that the coat he's wearing is the same color as the one pictured in this article...(hint, hint) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...leburnes-coat/2012/03/09/gIQAq9Jp1R_blog.html

Kevin Dally

 

[Zuzah]

Can you do something with Gen Cleburne?

I have been told by someone who knows more than me that the coat he's wearing is the same color as the one pictured in this article...(hint, hint) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...leburnes-coat/2012/03/09/gIQAq9Jp1R_blog.html

Kevin Dally

I'll get to him soon. I'm doing some requests from Reddit too, so I'll include it then.

 

[oldpete63]

Oh yeah, I hadn't noticed that, lol. Hunts' buttons are also in threes.

I believe they were a sign of rank. And really like Hunt - thank you !!

 

[ole]

I believe they were a sign of rank. And really like Hunt - thank you !!

I had heard that buttons and rank showed on Confederates, but I hadn't noticed that Union Generals seemed to have a button thing.

Confederate colonels had three stars on their stand-up collar. A general, any general, had a wreath around them. Suspect the arrangement of buttons might have further identified what kind of general.

This won't work with Lee, who most always wore the colonel's three stars, nor Grant, who most always wore an enlisted man's frock coat, with appropriate shoulder straps. No button ID in those two.

 

[oldpete63]

I had heard that buttons and rank showed on Confederates, but I hadn't noticed that Union Generals seemed to have a button thing.

Confederate colonels had three stars on their stand-up collar. A general, any general, had a wreath around them. Suspect the arrangement of buttons might have further identified what kind of general.

This won't work with Lee, who most always wore the colonel's three stars, nor Grant, who most always wore an enlisted man's frock coat, with appropriate shoulder straps. No button ID in those two.

Grant was smart - with all those illustrious "sharpshooters" out there - maybe they wouldn't take a pot shot at that common enlisted guy

 

[Zuzah]

I had heard that buttons and rank showed on Confederates, but I hadn't noticed that Union Generals seemed to have a button thing.

Confederate colonels had three stars on their stand-up collar. A general, any general, had a wreath around them. Suspect the arrangement of buttons might have further identified what kind of general.

This won't work with Lee, who most always wore the colonel's three stars, nor Grant, who most always wore an enlisted man's frock coat, with appropriate shoulder straps. No button ID in those two.

Yeah I read about Grant wearing a normal shirt with just straps sown on.

Lee always wore his Colonel's Uniform, funny how they did that. I think it has something to do with not wanting to stay 'above' everyone else.

 

[ole]

Yeah I read about Grant wearing a normal shirt with just straps sown on.

Lee always wore his Colonel's Uniform, funny how they did that. I think it has something to do with not wanting to stay 'above' everyone else.

Agreed. Do you think an element of avoiding sniper fire might have had something to do with it? (Wear a sash and become a target.)

 

[Zuzah]

Agreed. Do you think an element of avoiding sniper fire might have had something to do with it? (Wear a sash and become a target.)

Hell yeah. If I was attempting to take down a corps of men I'd go for the highest ranking officer, which you could tell by the sash or the overly fancy dressing mostly. Someone like Grant or Lee though - as famous as they were - were bound to be recognized, so I don't think they did it for that. Everyone should know who they were.

 

[wilber6150]

Agreed. Do you think an element of avoiding sniper fire might have had something to do with it? (Wear a sash and become a target.)

At least with Lee and Grant I dont think it had to do with snipers, they preety much dressed the same thru out the war, even before snipers starting making an impact..

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Hell yeah. If I was attempting to take down a corps of men I'd go for the highest ranking officer, which you could tell by the sash or the overly fancy dressing mostly. Someone like Grant or Lee though - as famous as they were - were bound to be recognized, so I don't think they did it for that. Everyone should know who they were.

With Grant, at least one Confederate soldier did not recognize him when they crossed paths. In Grant's memoirs he wrote of the time that he decided to surveil, unaccompanied by escort, the front lines during a lull in the fighting around Chattanooga. Grant rode up to a soldier dressed in blue near a creek thinking that he was a Union picket and started talking with him. During the conversation Grant asked the soldier whose corps he belonged to and the soldier in blue leaned very close to Grant and told him that he belonged to General Longstreet's corps. Grant wrote that he continued a non-informational conversation briefly with the soldier, then calmly rode away.

 

[Zuzah]

With Grant, at least one Confederate soldier did not recognize him when they crossed paths. In Grant's memoirs he wrote of the time that he decided to surveil, unaccompanied by escort, the front lines during a lull in the fighting around Chattanooga. Grant rode up to a soldier dressed in blue near a creek thinking that he was a Union picket and started talking with him. During the conversation Grant asked the soldier whose corps he belonged to and the soldier in blue leaned very close to Grant and told him that he belonged to General Longstreet's corps. Grant wrote that he continued a non-informational conversation briefly with the soldier, then calmly rode away.

Hah. That's pretty interesting. Was the soldier a spy or just dressed in blue?