[Leica] Photoshop Colorize Filter Experiment

[lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

My favorite is this one:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-2.jpg.html>

very nice tones and I like the smooth sky

I?ve liked too this one 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-2-3.jpg.html

but for my personal prefeences I find the clouds are too dramatized
Lluis


> El 16 oct 2022, a les 1:35, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> va escriure:
> 
> I am at my father-in-law's so I get to play around with the latest 
> versions of PS and LR.  I am still using CS6 and LR6.  Not sure if anyone 
> noticed the new neural filters that have been added a while back.  One of 
> them is colorize.  With one click it will take a B&W and turn it into 
> color.  I thought I'd give it a try.  I just did the one click thing and 
> did not play around much with the adjustments, and I accepted what it did 
> without choosing if I was satisfied or not.  I think that if you say that 
> maybe it will try again and maybe learn what you like.  Maybe a different 
> experiment later.
> 
> Since all his shots are color, I downloaded a few B&W shots from the 
> internet and gave it a try.  The first one is a famous Ansel Adams shot in 
> Yosemite from Tunnel view.
> 
> untitled-2-3 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-2-3.jpg.html>
> 
> untitled-2-4 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-2-4.jpg.html>      
> Not bad.  This one I did lower the contrast.
> 
> Next a Grand Canyon shot
> 
> untitled-2 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-2.jpg.html>
> 
> untitled-2-2 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-2-2.jpg.html>  I 
> did play with this a small amount.
> 
> So I said, what about people?  Here is a market shot.
> 
> untitled-2-5 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-2-5.jpg.html>
> 
> untitled-2-6 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-2-6.jpg.html>
> 
> My wife said how did it know she was in a blue coat?  Of course, it did 
> not, but make some kind of choice.  So, I though I would try something 
> else.
> 
> I took a few of my father-in-law's photos and converted them to B&W and 
> then colorized them to see what PS chose to do and how close to reality 
> was it.  Original color images are first followed by PS colorized versions
> 
> My nephew had a gray outfit on and of course PS did not know it was gray 
> from the start.
> 
> untitled-9808 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-9808.jpg.html>
> 
> untitled-9808-Edit (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-9808-Edit.jpg.html>
> 
> Here we all are at Tunnel View in gray shirts.  I wondered if they would 
> still be gray.  They were but my sister-in-law's skirt was changed from 
> blue to some sort of red.
> 
> untitled-0216 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-0216.jpg.html>
> 
> untitled-0216-Edit (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-0216-Edit.jpg.html>
> 
> And finally what about a flamingo?  Can PS get the feather colors correct?
> 
> untitled-0288 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-0288.jpg.html>
> 
> untitled-0288-Edit (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ce/untitled-0288-Edit.jpg.html>
> 
> So, you can draw your own conclusions.  For me, I am amazed at what it can 
> do. Having done a bit of computer programming way back in the dark ages, I 
> am just blown away at the complex calculations that must be going on.  And 
> if it is an original B&W with no reference for you to compare, I think it 
> did a pretty good job of making some plausible color choices, and with 
> some tweaking you might be able to make it look no so much like faded 
> Kodachrome but a new photo.
> 
> Comments welcome
> 
> Aram
> 
> 
> -- 
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
> would ever have dared dream.?
>   James D. Watson
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