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beatlemania.ca

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Nov 11, 2006, 8:21:35 AM11/11/06
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john lennon photo colorized

http://beatlemania.ca.googlepages.com/2

cheers

Bernie Woodham

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Nov 11, 2006, 10:14:36 AM11/11/06
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"beatlemania.ca" <beatlem...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> john lennon photo colorized
>
> http://beatlemania.ca.googlepages.com/2
>
> cheers
>

How can I find out about the process you use to do that?


Dale Houstman

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Nov 11, 2006, 11:25:22 AM11/11/06
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I don't know how they did it, but I've colorized lots of pictures using
Photoshop, and it's pretty easy, although it might take a little finesse
to get exactly what you want.

dmh

Lookingglass

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Nov 11, 2006, 12:27:58 PM11/11/06
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"Dale Houstman" <dm...@skypoint.com> wrote in message
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Yes...I have a hard time trying to color inside the lines with a silly
'mouse'...

;^)

dancin' dave (...black, white, green, red...)
www.Shemakhan.com


abe slaney

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Nov 11, 2006, 12:52:57 PM11/11/06
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No offense intended to whoever did the work on that picture, especially
if they're only doing it for their own enjoyment, but that's a pretty
poor colorization job, at least by any professional standard. There's
one hue applied to the whole head - hair, eyes, lips, glasses,
highlights, shadows, everything.

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phattbuzz

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Nov 11, 2006, 2:28:43 PM11/11/06
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<nmag...@none.org> wrote in message
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> "beatlemania.ca" <beatlem...@gmail.com> wrote in
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>> john lennon photo colorized
>>
>> http://beatlemania.ca.googlepages.com/2
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
>
>
> Stop trying to change history.
>
Everyone knows color wasn't invented until about 1966. ;-)

- phattbuzz


Toxteth O'Grady

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Nov 11, 2006, 5:55:12 PM11/11/06
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abe slaney wrote:
> No offense intended to whoever did the work on that picture, especially
> if they're only doing it for their own enjoyment, but that's a pretty
> poor colorization job, at least by any professional standard. There's
> one hue applied to the whole head - hair, eyes, lips, glasses,
> highlights, shadows, everything.


You went to his website. That's all he really cares about.

Saucer Man

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Nov 11, 2006, 6:09:14 PM11/11/06
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Why don't you try one? The greyscale original is there. Let's see how he
looks with different hues applied.

--

Thanks.


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fishandchips

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Nov 11, 2006, 6:18:42 PM11/11/06
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not a bad job, really..............check out Andy Warhol
portraits.............art, eye of the beholder
> >

Bernie Woodham

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Nov 11, 2006, 7:17:30 PM11/11/06
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"fishandchips" <Chippa...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Yeah. You can tell it was colorized, but it's not a bad effort. I'd feel
pretty good about it if I could do as well.

I have a copy of the colorized 1933 King Kong. The Lennon pic looks a lot
better than that film.


fishandchips

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Nov 11, 2006, 7:24:11 PM11/11/06
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Love it when the color bleeds off the image.............art in itself

>

abe slaney

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Nov 12, 2006, 1:05:40 AM11/12/06
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Saucer Man wrote:

> Why don't you try one? The greyscale original is there. Let's see how he
> looks with different hues applied.
>

Try this one. I spent twenty minutes to a half hour on it - it's not
ideal, I could do more and clean it up some if I wanted to spend more
time on it, but it's just the idea of trying to get some nuance into it.

http://tinyurl.com/ykleow

Bernie Woodham

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Nov 12, 2006, 3:15:30 AM11/12/06
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"abe slaney" <abesl...@itagain.com> wrote in message
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Pretty good.


Dale Houstman

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Nov 12, 2006, 7:24:30 AM11/12/06
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But the obvious intent here is to create a "realistic" portrait of a
person, and there is no actual attempt at art. I think the success or
non-success of the image has to be judged by different standards than
one might aplly to Warhol, or to Gaugin's "Yellow Christ" or Franz
Marc's "Blue Horse".

dmh

Ehtue

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Nov 13, 2006, 10:55:41 AM11/13/06
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Dale Houstman wrote:

> But the obvious intent here is to create a "realistic" portrait of a
> person, and there is no actual attempt at art. I think the success or
> non-success of the image has to be judged by different standards than
> one might aplly to Warhol, or to Gaugin's "Yellow Christ" or Franz
> Marc's "Blue Horse".


Another Franz Marc fan??

-Ehtue

abe slaney

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Nov 13, 2006, 2:18:31 PM11/13/06
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Oh, everybody's a Franz Marc fan nowadays. I can't turn on the TV
without hearing "Franz Marc this" or "Franz Marc that."

Dale Houstman

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Nov 14, 2006, 7:58:44 AM11/14/06
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Sure. Not my favorite, but certainly a good'un. My "favorite painters"?
Hard to say, but there's Magritte, Max Ernst, Schwitters, Hieronymous
Bosch, Blake, Pollack, Gorky, Turner, Whistler, Van Gogh, Hopper, and a
hundred or so more...

dmh


Dale Houstman

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Nov 14, 2006, 8:07:56 AM11/14/06
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There's going to be a sitcom about him and his friend next year, called
"Der Blau Pferd" and starring Scott Baio as Franz. I hope Penny Marshall
is involved, but she's busy with her Rimbaud biopic, starring Robin
Williams as Verlaine. No word yet on the title actor, but I'm pulling
for John Goodman.

dmh

abe slaney

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Nov 14, 2006, 8:40:39 PM11/14/06
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Not bad... I'd add Titian, Rembrandt, Goya, Constable, Monet, Uccello,
Ryder, Marin, DeKooning, Rothko, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Soutine,
Bierstadt, FitzH Lane and El Greco. All aboard!

abe slaney

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Nov 14, 2006, 8:42:42 PM11/14/06
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Dale Houstman wrote:

>
>
> abe slaney wrote:

>> Oh, everybody's a Franz Marc fan nowadays. I can't turn on the TV
>> without hearing "Franz Marc this" or "Franz Marc that."
>>
>
> There's going to be a sitcom about him and his friend next year, called
> "Der Blau Pferd" and starring Scott Baio as Franz. I hope Penny Marshall
> is involved, but she's busy with her Rimbaud biopic, starring Robin
> Williams as Verlaine. No word yet on the title actor, but I'm pulling
> for John Goodman.

Rimbaud was biopic? Well that explains a lot!

Lookingglass

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Nov 15, 2006, 3:52:34 AM11/15/06
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"abe slaney" <abesl...@itagain.com> wrote in message
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> Dale Houstman wrote:

>> Sure. Not my favorite, but certainly a good'un. My "favorite painters"?
>> Hard to say, but there's Magritte, Max Ernst, Schwitters, Hieronymous
>> Bosch, Blake, Pollack, Gorky, Turner, Whistler, Van Gogh, Hopper, and a
>> hundred or so more...
>>
>> dmh
>
> Not bad... I'd add Titian, Rembrandt, Goya, Constable, Monet, Uccello,
> Ryder, Marin, DeKooning, Rothko, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Soutine, Bierstadt,
> FitzH Lane and El Greco. All aboard!


I absolutely LOVE 'children's' art...it is MAGICAL. I have a large
collection.

dancin' dave (...nothing that doesn't show...)
www.Shemakhan.com


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Jeff

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Nov 15, 2006, 6:52:41 PM11/15/06
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> news:1163251295....@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

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> > john lennon photo colorized
> >
> > http://beatlemania.ca.googlepages.com/2
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >
>
>
> Stop trying to change history.
>
>
> It has nothing to do with changing history, if someone wants to colorize a picture
for their own pleasure. Besides that, future Beatle
generation fans will not see
nor relate to the Beatles the same as we do, whether we
like it or not.
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Ehtue

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Nov 16, 2006, 2:47:31 AM11/16/06
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abe slaney wrote:


Really? Damn! I haven't seen any of that stuff. There's a great, almost
unknown to those "not in the know" museum in Munich, that has the most of
his art... along with other Blaue Reiter artists, including Kandinski,
Macke and Feininger, where I was first won over. What a period... and what
a shame he didn't live through WWI.

-Ehtue

btw, Marc's Blue Horse is FAR from his best or even most influential. Could
you have perhaps meant the Tower of Blue Horses, which, unfortunately is
now lost.

Ehtue

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Nov 16, 2006, 2:50:18 AM11/16/06
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Dale Houstman wrote:

Damn, Dale, though I don't take your post seriously in its details, I'm
really surprised to learn that Marc has become a household name. How did
this happen? (I have to admit that I don't watch much TV).

-Ehtue

Ehtue

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Nov 16, 2006, 2:54:34 AM11/16/06
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Dale Houstman wrote:

I guess for me one of the most outstanding things about Marc was how he was
progressing and then was cut short at a very early age by WWI. Still, his
influence on German -- and other -- painters after he died was tremendous.
I can't help thinking "if you like Kandinski, you'd love Marc" --
especially if he had lived past a senseless war.

-Ehtue

abe slaney

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Nov 16, 2006, 8:38:59 AM11/16/06
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Sorry, Ehtue - I was being facetious (not a whole lot of abstract
painting being talked about on prime time TV these days!) - but I do
like Marc!

Ehtue

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Nov 16, 2006, 6:34:20 PM11/16/06
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abe slaney wrote:


Ah, well, it WHOOOOSHED right over my head!

-Ehtue

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