For my second cakeday I thought I'd show my best colourizations and some restorations that I've been doing for fun. Hope you enjoy!

cropythy · 8 months

I remember first seeing the burning monk picture, and that one is still as powerful as when I first saw it.

Desekt · 8 months

TIL Abraham Lincoln was abandoned after the London bombings.

tivo17 · 8 months

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Polky · 8 months

The Roosevelt one blew me the fuck away.

ImDaTruth · 8 months

That monk picture is really one of the more powerful pictures on the internet.

Kuftubby · 8 months

I've always wondered, how do you determine what colors to use? Like for Lincolns bowtie you used red, how did you know it wasn't a different color?

I am honestly interested and not trying to troll.

This perplexes me.

whatever_idc · 8 months

I think you're an amazing artist. I love your colorizations. One of my favorites is one you left out, a wedding photo.

dazedconfusedlost · 8 months

the woman, with the dog, is absolutely gorgeous

CCMSTF · 8 months

Damn good work!

Though Hitchcock just doesn't look like Hitchcock when he's not in b&w.

And Nansen looks more like an 90's euro pop star.

And the attack on Pearl Harbor looks like a Bob Ross painting. (We'll put a happy little explosion right over here).

Renbail · 8 months

Cliché / Unoriginal post title my ass, this should be on the top list of posts of Reddit! These works are amazing!

Neonimous · 8 months

Awesome stuff!

But you have Churchill labeled as Hitchcock.

bleunt · 8 months

I think you're Swedish. Or at least Scandinavian.

alienomega · 8 months

Absolutely amazing work on all accounts! I admire you!

nigel45 · 8 months

Excellent work. My only criticism is that if the Civil War dead are Union soldiers, their pants should be a sky blue color, not brown.

Otherwise these are all really fantastic.

Vitalstatistix · 8 months

These are pretty great. Just FYI you have Lincoln on here twice (under the grade school boy part).

Want to have a go at my great great great uncle? That picture is from around 1870 I'd imagine.

jessicatron · 8 months

It's amazing how much it removes the psychological distance to see a historical photo in color instead of black and white.

XXengineer · 8 months

It's like a coloringbook for adults!

amoodie · 8 months

I tried colorization once, it came out looking more like I had a seizure during the process and the saturation was increased to the point of an island tourism poster. Awesome work.

LyssaBrisby · 8 months

I'm a graphic designer who lives in photoshop and man, I know how hard this is to make naturalistic. BRAVO.

movzx · 8 months

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kwangqengelele · 8 months

Some of these are amazing. I notice the blues seem to be hard to get right, like they seem to be more vibrant than they'd be in an actual picture. The Che Guevara one just looks like a painting to me but the original black and white looks a lot like a pencil drawing.

Still, these are some of the best I've ever seen, you should be paid to do this type of work.

Radio_Flyer · 8 months

This is so well done. Only one thing…didn't Twain always wear all white suits?

hamboned · 8 months

Not going to lie, I had to wiki Fridtjof Nansen...

ABitCurious · 8 months

Why does EVERYONE HAVE BLUE EYES?

Rampant_baconator · 8 months

Apparently everything was blue back in the day

Arab81253 · 8 months

Amazing. I love colorized pictures. History is brought back to life and given so much more meaning. So instead of saying "oh a pearl harbor picture" you say "holy shit this actually happened".

History is so cool

also I was wondering if you would take a shot at [this one] http://desiringlife.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/d-day.jpg

also I have a poster of the bikini atoll b&w. Do you have a standalone of the colorized one? I'd love to replace my poster with that one

friedeggplant · 8 months

the operations crossroads picture is the bomb in color.

dakst3r · 8 months

Very nice! You should do this for a living.

Catfactsdaily · 8 months

These are all absoloutely amazing. Fantastic job. Thank you for bringing history to life.

RackballJoe · 8 months

Actually you're not the first to colorize "Harvest of Death." To be a history troll the soldiers' pants probably were light blue as they were Union soldiers, rather than the brown you colorized them as. But this colorizing technique is pretty impressive!

http://www.gdg.org/images/Research/Authored%20Items/HarvestofdeathColorized.jpg

townshend445 · 8 months

Boye looks like a man. Nothing wrong with your work, she just looks like one.

sigaven · 8 months

This is absolutely wonderful work. The civil war photo was particularly stunning, just 'cause, I dunno...I had never pictured that war in color before.

Anyway, how do you decide what colors to use? You probably use historical knowledge to detail the hair color, eye color, skin color etc of the famous people but what about their clothes? Do certain shades of gray hint at being certain colors or do you just leave it up to your creativity?

imabannana · 8 months

1070 people downvoted this? What the fuck is wrong with you people? Seriously.

briandilley · 8 months

Colorize this please: http://i.imgur.com/FOvtd.jpg

PedroDelCaso · 8 months

Love these, do you have a tutorial or anything? I've been wanting to try this with shots I take in monochrome and colour on purpose.

thechoiceisclear · 8 months

Fantastic stuff - love the Hitchcock one :-)

mshimoura · 8 months

This may be my favorite thing I've seen on reddit, thus far.

jollytrolley · 8 months

That's like magic. Thanks for sharing

StockmanBaxter · 8 months

The coloring is so perfectly done!

I'd like to see a youtube tutorial. Especially with the bent and cracked photos.

ilovetime · 8 months

Anyone else think this guy has some sort of secret hookup to a stash of magical 200 year old photos and he just put them through a black and white filter?

They're tooooo good!

one_is_enough · 8 months

Awesome work . . . I smiled at each of the "redditor request" photos, because I know each of those touched many hearts.

ETmussa · 8 months

I'll probably get downvoted but... Could you do a picture of hitler?

Rayne_Storm · 8 months

Dat Churchill gaze T_T

Apex_Series · 8 months

Is it possible to get a wallpaper sized copy of your colorized Bikini Atoll?

Corpsman223 · 8 months

Amazing. Thanks for sharing with us.

ragincarnage · 8 months

Darwin looks like the shovel guy from Home Alone.

iflyplanes · 8 months

Having been to Anne Frank's hideout in Amsterdam and the Holocaust museum in DC... there's just something about seeing her like that. Humanizing.

ironclownfish · 8 months

The Anne Frank one almost made me cry. Thank you for the tiny bit of life you gave back to that little girl.

Moatman · 8 months

Wow, they need you for the Gears of War series!

Tanspriter · 8 months

Now colourize GREYS OF WAR DOHOHOHOH

lefthomerow · 8 months

Awesome - can you do Walt Whitman when you're bored/so inclined?

kabukistar · 8 months

Ah, the past. Where everyone wore blue and brown.

Jewzilian · 8 months

Bravo for colorizing everyone in the background in the Dorothy Counts picture. That must've been a bitch.

groovyat33rpm · 8 months

Out of curiousity, do certain shades of grey correspond to different colors, or do you have to use your intuition to select the color of a grey photo?

TrollNumberOne · 8 months

Is there any high res version of the colorized version of the atomic explosion ?

lakotian · 8 months

This is amazing. End of story.

chapisbored · 8 months

Your a genius. How did you learn to do this?

CurrentsConvulsive · 8 months

For some strange reason, every time I see the VJ day kiss, I'm filled with a flood of happiness and I wonder if I could ever have a moment where I'd feel the same amount of joy. Well done, these blew me away.

pmbuko · 8 months

You really nail the skin tone in these. Great stuff.

Zerg0 · 8 months

I don't have a witty comment or a pun. I just want to say, wow. This is amazing. Thank you for posting!

ayrainy · 8 months

Fridtjof Nansen looks like the baddest bad ass I've ever seen This lead me to google him, and his accomplishments are about as badass as he looks.

ThePuppeteer · 8 months

So many blue eyes

BentRods · 8 months

I am incredibly impressed. Just thought I would tell you that.

EAVBERBWF · 8 months

I sometimes forget these people lived in color

thesalemdit · 8 months

How do you determine clothing colors?

AfalloutAdcit56 · 8 months

So... Probably a stupid question but how do you tell what color everything in those pics are supposed to be ?

mod83 · 8 months

mygrapefruit very kindly colourised the only picture of my grandmother's wedding in 1941. Amazing work, so grateful.

FlippyJoeBiscuit · 8 months

Nice job. the only one i have issue with is Alfred Hitchcock. He and/or the photographer would have set up the lighting with the black and white result in mind, which is very dramatic in contrast in B&W. It is diminished when colorized and removes the drama of the image.

brickmaj · 8 months

That colorized monk pic was my bg since I saw it first on reddit. Good on you. People would always ask me why I had it as my bg and I would say so we don't forget the violence of Vietnam and the protestors. Thanks

gopster · 8 months

Now these are in color, I have a greater desire to vividly punch that douchebag laughing behind Dorothy Counts.

Jeffdud3 · 8 months

JSYK In the picture of the flaming monk, there would be blue coloration on the base of the fire bcuz it is a gasoline-fueled flame. Other than that OMG THESE LOOK REAL! haha :)

Expodryerase · 8 months

Amazing work!

avengepluto · 8 months

Charles Darwin is WAY more intense in color.

Zipwang5555 · 8 months

Wow. You had me at Hitchcock. I am humbled by your skill.

wateravenuecoffee · 8 months

http://imgur.com/7HaQw

nachos_ · 8 months

People would pay you BIG bucks to restore their old photos. This is amazing.

ThunderingNuisance · 8 months

Removing the texture on this photo was amazing. How did you do it?

seriouslydamaged · 8 months

The bombing at the Bikini Atoll is such much more impressive in the coloured version. In some way, it just gets real by this.

snoozieboi · 8 months

You were apparently born a few decades too late. Amazing work, are you the same guy that didn't notice that the black and white image with that woman with her three children actually was holding a baby whose face was coloured gray?

ilikepho · 8 months

These are going massively viral in 3.. 2.. 1

jonr · 8 months

You are getting really good at this.

fintorro · 8 months

Really, really great work, I'm very impressed. My own two cents: Charlie Chaplin's complexion and the Crossroad's nuke explosion don't look quite right. Other than that it's brilliant.

bw1870 · 8 months

Charlie Chaplin could pass for Prince's brother.

princess_sparkles · 8 months

As much as I love black and white, and as awesome as all of the originals were... the color in some of the photos made them extra powerful and stunning. Fantastic. Thanks for sharing!

SushiKat · 8 months

Wow these are amazing, great job! They look beautiful.

planet808 · 8 months

outstanding sir!

tentativesteps · 8 months

these are some unbelievably awesome restorations. the burning monk in particular was fantastic. thanks so much for sharing.

foshiznick · 8 months

These are great! Espescialy the Mauretania one! I work in the Port of Liverpool and one of the new Pilots is from four generations of Pilots and that John Currie is his great great uncle or something. also got the office talking. they love thier history and one of the fellas great uncles served on that ship and went down with her when the germans sank her. that ship was the reason America joined the war too! All the old sea legs have been telling me thier great stories now thanks to that pic so thank you!

Megawatts19 · 8 months

Johnny Cash's remake of "Hurt" goes really well with these pictures.

Drop-Dead-Fred · 8 months

Coming from a professional Photoshopper...

....you're very good at Photoshop.

apipop · 8 months

Darwin, Nansen and Lange are great!

QuantoQuandoQuatro · 8 months

Holy fucking fucky fuck.

SirDaneel · 8 months

I don't have words... so thank you, it's beautiful

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