General Baseball Image Discussion

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Phillies 13

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Phillies 14

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Phillies 15

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Phillies 16

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Phillies 17

[pirates60]

Real nice Bo Belinsky card!

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Phillies 18 - That's all I've got
There are five of the above that I'll color:
Dick Young,
Del Wilbur,
Frank Baumholtz,
Joe Koppe,
Peanuts Lowery

There are thirteen that I don't have pictures of as Phillies.
If anyone supplies decent ones, I'll color those

For the rest, I've supplied color pictures above plus a bunch of other guys as well

[ortforshort]

I found some more rumaging around a bit

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Phillies 20 Some more rumaging

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Originally Posted by pirates60

Real nice Bo Belinsky card!

Not sure why I put it in here, but it is a nice picture

[cheech411]

Originally Posted by ortforshort

Phillies 15

is Leroy Reams

[ortforshort]

Originally Posted by cheech411

is Leroy Reams

Got it, will change it - thanks

[Rainmaker]

A perfect game, a Hall of Fame bust, a 12-year term in the U.S. Senate ... you could say Jim Bunning had a pretty good run.



Tigers 1955-63



Phillies 1964-67, 70-71



Pirates 1968-69



Dodgers 1969

[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by ortforshort

I'm not doing colorizations on demand.

Understood. Don't know until you ask. Keep up the wonderful work.

[ortforshort]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

Understood. Don't know until you ask. Keep up the wonderful work.

If the colorizations fit in with what I'm going to colorize anyway, request away.If the requests are going to sidetrack me, I'm going to refuse. It's pretty obvious that I spend a whole lot of my spare time doing these things - which I do based on my own personal agenda (which for our purposes is to color guys who don't have a good color pic of them anywhere - from the Fifties at the moment). If I'm ever going to see a light at the end of this tunnel, I can't go off every sidetrack that comes along. The Phillies colorings that I'm going to do, I was going to do anyway, just re-prioritizing to accommodate. If you've got B&W's from the 50's that fit what I'm doing, I'll do them. One thing, is I would like to request that folks supply high quality B&W's because I don't want to waste my time coloring pics that are going to turn out to be crap

[FatJack]

This may be the weirdest process I've done, but pictures of Zardon, the Cuban outfielder who spent one season with the Washington Senators, don't grow on trees. I always "show my work"; sorry this one is rather involved.

There is one Latin American "card" of Zardon picturing him with the Senators (sort of Panini like...with the cap logo either unreadable or blacked out), but that's more like a poorly screened newspaper photo. Can't do a thing with it. A couple of other images, including the small but notorious one with the funny shaped baseball cap. Also worthless for my purposes. Then there's the nice fairly sharp B&W that accompanied his obit, which SPORTSMEM817 posted to the forum. But I look at that uniform and say, what the heck am I supposed to do with that?

So I ended up with what I presume is a family portrait image. Not a baseball picture, but good sized, at least. When putting a head on an alternate body (which I generally try to avoid), I always transplant the neck as well. But Jose's got a dress shirt on, depriving me of good neck.

Additional issues. When mixing and matching parts for a transformation, you really want them to be of similar size and focus. The body, here (from pinterest and labeled Dutch Leonard, which I'm not believing), had the size right, faced the wrong direction (so I flip Jose), but the focus is all wrong. Should have blurred it up a bit, but didn't. But I did like the background, so that's cool. Ah, but the cap. I could not, for the life of me, find a properly oriented '45 era Senators cap of good size. Did my best to shrink Jose into the cap image I had that was properly oriented (a better option that going the other way). So now I've got three pieces that don't quite fit each other. Such is life when you're too impatient to search for very long.

Tried some new coloring techniques on portions of the background, which worked pretty well (mostly working only with color balance without colorizing on the "houses"). The final issue... I have a way of preserving the aspect ratio for the cards as the program I use for making cards doesn't have any way of doing that on its own, It's possible I put the cap too low, but Jose was looking a little round-faced in comparison to the other images of him, so I did "elongate" the image a tad to compensate (I pretty much never do that). It is what it is. So let's see how this whole mess worked out, shall we?

[ortforshort]

Originally Posted by FatJack

This may be the weirdest process I've done, but pictures of Zardon, the Cuban outfielder who spent one season with the Washington Senators, don't grow on trees. I always "show my work"; sorry this one is rather involved.

There is one Latin American "card" of Zardon picturing him with the Senators (sort of Panini like...with the cap logo either unreadable or blacked out), but that's more like a poorly screened newspaper photo. Can't do a thing with it. A couple of other images, including the small but notorious one with the funny shaped baseball cap. Also worthless for my purposes. Then there's the nice fairly sharp B&W that accompanied his obit, which SPORTSMEM817 posted to the forum. But I look at that uniform and say, what the heck am I supposed to do with that?

So I ended up with what I presume is a family portrait image. Not a baseball picture, but good sized, at least. When putting a head on an alternate body (which I generally try to avoid), I always transplant the neck as well. But Jose's got a dress shirt on, depriving me of good neck.

Additional issues. When mixing and matching parts for a transformation, you really want them to be of similar size and focus. The body, here (from pinterest and labeled Dutch Leonard, which I'm not believing), had the size right, faced the wrong direction (so I flip Jose), but the focus is all wrong. Should have blurred it up a bit, but didn't. But I did like the background, so that's cool. Ah, but the cap. I could not, for the life of me, find a properly oriented '45 era Senators cap of good size. Did my best to shrink Jose into the cap image I had that was properly oriented (a better option that going the other way). So now I've got three pieces that don't quite fit each other. Such is life when you're too impatient to search for very long.

Tried some new coloring techniques on portions of the background, which worked pretty well (mostly working only with color balance without colorizing on the "houses"). The final issue... I have a way of preserving the aspect ratio for the cards as the program I use for making cards doesn't have any way of doing that on its own, It's possible I put the cap too low, but Jose was looking a little round-faced in comparison to the other images of him, so I did "elongate" the image a tad to compensate (I pretty much never do that). It is what it is. So let's see how this whole mess worked out, shall we?

The purists will hate you for this

[SPORTSMEM817]

In honor of memorial day I thought this was fitting

[dennis_keith]

To Ortforshort:
You've really outdone yourself this time supplying about all that I asked for plus a few extra ones of your choosing. I'm greatly indebted to you for your time and effort.
-dennis_keith-

[dennis_keith]

Originally Posted by ortforshort

I found some more rumaging around a bit

Player IDs for Phillies 19?