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Originally Posted by brobby05
How did you the stands on Dave Rader? That's what I was talking about on the 1971 Ed Crosby enclosed.
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BRobby05
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The backgrounds on colorizations are tricky because they are usually out of focus and less defined than the player image in the forefront. What I usually do is choose a nice ambient color and just make a monochromatic backdrop. It's easy, simple and makes the player photo stand out.
Alternatively you can try to color individual areas. This technique is time consuming but with the right image can be very impressive. Once again, your work will be entirely dependent on your source image. I have taken the Ed Crosby image and made my best effort at colorizing the background. I did the seats in blue, and darkened the concrete supports and facades. The other items are too indistinct in the photo to really be sure what they are (A person? A concession stand? A sign??) This effort took me a lot of time and in the final assessment, I think the blue monochrome image is better.
The last image is the Ed Crosby photo cut and pasted on top of a color photo of Busch Stadium. To do this, make sure the destination image (the stadium photo) is large enough to contain your cut-out player image. With the image I did, I had to increase the size of the stadium photo in another program (I made it the same height as the Crosby pic). I then save the image and cropped it so the sides of the Crosby image were the sides of the blended image. This turned out pretty well in this case, but sometimes a colorized image looks bad when paired with an actually color photo. Again, use your artist's eye.
In the final analysis, I prefer the Crosby superimposed onto the color photo.
Ordinarily I would have only done the first one. It is the easiest and looks pretty good. Sometimes colorizing requires you to make a value judgment. It took me a bit longer to do the others (especially the middle two) so sometimes putting more time and work into your colorization is not necessarily the best thing. Make a call on what you will be using your photo for and take it from there.