Can Someone please "Colorize" this picture for me?

[AnthonySterling]

Hello all,

My nan recently passed away, I have found this photo of her getting married to gramps and I have managed to repair it using various tools available, but now I would like to make it color.

I cannot for the life of me figure this out, it would be a great gift to my mum....

I have therefore offered it up to the Neowin GFX gurus to give it a whirl, if possible.

I would be more than willing to offer the artist whos final picture I select a payment via paypal, im afraid it would not be much but somewhere in the region of ?15-$30.

Would any one be willing to help me on this?

Zipped Picture in BMP Format

Cheers all.

SilverB.

Edited August 2, 2006 by SilverBulletUK

[zhangm Supervisor]

Uhm, any idea what the original colors are?

[Rob Veteran]

Also, I should say that RapidShare is despised by so many on here because their ISP uses proxies, preventing us from downloading. Try to find somewhere to host it.

[Pox]

Mmmm, re-save it as a JPEG and put it on imageshack or something.

[zhangm Supervisor]

For the duration of this "contest":

http://www.mad-science.org/Ming/Files/colorize_photo.png (original)

[stevember]

http://www.recolored.com/index.php

[AnthonySterling]

Many thanks "Relativity_17", much appreciated!

Im sorry guys, i have no idea what the original colours were...

Is this do-able?

[zhangm Supervisor]

Anything is doable.

[Andre]

A not so quick attempt.

[Brodel]

^ wow, that's impressive. nice job

[Arckon]

Good job Andre! That is very impressive!

[Blackima]

A not so quick attempt.

awww, and you even touched up the photo for him :)

Nicely done! :D

[leesmithg]

A not so quick attempt.

Thats excellent, brilliant fantabuloooso!

You are a master at what you did!

[mail]

:o Lots of colouring. Nicely done.

[Ently]

seriously.. how did you do that Andre ?

[Jon 5]

^ All I gotta say is damn. I was expecting a pretty crappy touch up job from what you said but damn. Keep up the awesome work!

[fall3n]

seriously.. how did you do that Andre ?

Pretty sure that's just selecting the areas and then using the variations option in Photoshop. Not to hard to do, but can be time consuming. Excellent job Andre, though I did notice that the a part of the flower where the shadow should be is also red, but I'm just picky ;)

[Cyplex]

Wow that was pretty cool Andre!

I did find this, Recolored :)

[morgs]

That was incredible Andre!

[AnthonySterling]

WOW, I'm really impressed Andre! And may I add, very appreciative.

Is there any particular application you use?

Withg regards to "Recolored", I downloaded and had a good hour or so attempting to colorize the image, but to be honest, my attempts were terrible! Im not artist thats for sure.!!

Amazing Andre, just amazing!

[neostyle]

wow a brilliant job :)

[Leddy]

In Photoshop, create a new layer over it and set layer type "Color". Then just use the brush tool and paint over.

:D