Jack Hickey 1904
 

John William Hickey colorized with the Cleveland Naps from an image shared by tnfoto.backgrounds by Palette.fm and enhanced by Snapedit.

Bob Way 1927
 

Robert Clinton Way colorized with the Chicago White Sox from an image shared by Cinemaodyssey.

palette.fm, et al.

Lerton Pinto 1922
 

Thank you for completing the Workman colorization.

This is a 1924 image of Lerton Pinto with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Jack Himes 1905
 

John Herby Himes colorized from an image shared by dto7. I have upgrade with Pica.ai

Herm Malloy 1907
 

John Herman Malloy colorized with the Detroit Tigers colors by palette.fm with an upscale from Pica

Lerton Pinto 1922
 

William Lerton Pinto colorized with the Philadelphia Phillies. I had an image of Lerton as well. I colorized both images using Palette.fm and enhanced with Pica.ai
Thought I would take a crack at this one.

Frank Emmer 1916
 

Frank William Emmer colorized with the Cincinnati Reds. The first image was shared by tnfoto while the other I found in the Cinemaodyssey facepack. I used Palette.fm and Pica.ai on the larger image while the other was done by hand.

Opted for a different photo.


palette.fm, et al.

Lerton Pinto
 

Great work! You have a sure hand with that enhancement software. It makes it look better and worse at the same time somehow in my experience using it.

George Harper 1916
 

What a gem! I would be most interested in knowing your source, no problem if you don't wish to share.

Yes, I agree with the observation about the software not always enhancing, but that does seem to be more uncommon.

Here is an image of George Harper, I had to extract it from the Cincinnati Reds team photo of 1924 as I could not find an alternative for that year. Be most grateful if an improved option was used.

With a career batting average of .303 and an OPS of .836 Harper was an accomplished outfielder. Hit the majors with Detroit in 1916 and spent 3 years with the Tigers as a back-up. That outfield being illuminated with Cobb, Heilmann and Veach. Returned to the Majors in 1922 after a 4 year gap with the Reds and established himself as the starting right-fielder and clean-up hitter.

Began the 1924 season with the Reds but spent most of the season as the Phillies starting right-fielder normally batting second.

In all was the normal starting outfielder with 5 different National League teams, which must be close to a record. Earning that capacity also with the Giants, Cardinals and finally the Braves.

Lerton Pinto
 

No, I don't mind.


I couldn't get a good result on the face enhancement on your original. I found a shot on ebay with a better face (see attached). Identified as coming from 1922, I thought two years was close enough. Of course, the uniform was a lot different than '24. Had to remove the pinstripes, get rid of the circle around the jersey "P", lighten the cap top, and add a cap logo. All of that was done in Photoshop Elements after general cleanup/enhancement via Topaz Photoshop AI. After the uniform changes, background and face colorization was done with palette.fm. Uniform colorization required revisiting Elements. Final step (probably overkill) was a slight face "crisp up" in Topaz Gigapixel. For what it's worth, I acquired the Topaz apps for use with personal photography. The fact that they work so well for vintage restorations was a side benefit.

Transformation
 

Thanks for the behind the scenes. I really like how much light you can get on the face. Many times the ballcaps add so much shadow.

Ducky Holmes 1906
 

Howard Elbert "Ducky" Holmes colorized. I took the second image from the Cinemaodyssey facepack. The other image is a bit blurry but I could not resist including an image of "Ducky" Holmes wearing a uniform with a duck on it.

I went back to the Getty original and pulled the same shot from there...got a better result with that. Caveats apply. Any time the starting image is that small, you may get a nice looking result but it may or may not be a good representation of how the individual really looked. There are some good larger images of Harper online (i.e. St. Louis, New York) and I don't think the attached Cincy enhancement looks all that much like them. On the other hand, compared to the original Reds team photo, it's a plausible result.


Also, cap and jersey pinstripes didn't survive the enlargement. It could probably be faked with some more Photoshopping but I got lazy. :p

Bob Hasty 1919
 

The Harper image looks outstanding to me and as far as being a likeness appears to closely match another 1924 image of him in the uniform of the Phillies.

This image with the Philadelphia Athletics, attached, does date from 1924 but is not of the same quality of earlier images of Bob Hasty so I don't have great expectations in terms of the outcome compared to what would be the result from those earlier examples.

Herm Merritt 1921
 

Herman G. Merritt colorized in an image from the Cinemaodyssey facepack. I enhanced the image with Pica.ai

Alex Hooks 1935
 

Alexander Marcus Hooks colorized with the Philadelphia Athletics using Palette.fm and ai rush

Hooks Wiltse 1904
 

George Leroy Wiltse colorized with the New York Giants. I useds palette.fm on the larger image/

Hooks Iott 1941
 

Clarence Eugene "Hooks" Iott colorized with the New York Giants from an image shared by Cinemaodyssey using Palette.fm and airbrush