ruskino80
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| posted on 2/6/12 at 10:05 PM |
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b+w photo conversion
i have a load of photos taken onto an sd card that are all in black and white(shot that way) is it possible to convert them to full colour? ta
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tegwin
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| posted on 2/6/12 at 10:16 PM |
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Simple answer is no....
Complex answer is.... yes in theory it is possible but I dont know of any openly available software. Some specialist companies have written their own
algorythms to do this but the photos require a lot of touching up afterwards. A few WW1 films have been converted into psudo colour this way.
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raguri
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| posted on 2/6/12 at 11:19 PM |
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If you google it, there are a ton of "how to's" on it. Mainly using Photoshop. I'm not sure about linking other sites and what
that's like with the rules, so i wont do it, but yahoo answers has a few nice ones!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 2/6/12 at 11:20 PM |
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You can add colour using e.g. photoshop. However since there is no colour information stored in the picture this will be a manual process and any
colour you add will be based on educated guess work.
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snapper
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| posted on 3/6/12 at 04:56 AM |
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I always shoot full RAW that way B&W can be done in post production.
Some B&W functions can retain enough croma information to convert back but most use luminance from each RGB channel combine and throw away
unwanted info to reduce file size.
I did in the dim and distant past use multiple exposure B&W image layers then pass red,green & blue (cyan, magenta & yellow) through
individual layers to produce a colour image, (this technique is used in astro photography) but it is very time consuming and in an image with people
your brain will find areas that don't match it's expectations easily.
Interesting problem though.
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