Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show colourised.

[pallid solstice]

I used photoshop to colour the first frame, then I used an AI called DarkExemplar which propagated the first frame onto the rest.

[reef island]

Pretty cool, Ellis.

[pallid solstice]

Thanks!

I'm currently doing the same thing for The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show

[native zealot]

wow cool not horrible

did you use gradient maps for the colorization?

btw I recommend using palette.fm ai for the base of colorization

[pallid solstice]

in some parts, yes

generally when i colour photos i use a mix of Solid Colour layers with normal layers
but when it comefs to clothing, i used gradient maps with colours from reference images

[pallid solstice]

thank you

colourising the first frame manually makes much better results than full ai

[native zealot]

use gradient maps for everything cause otherwise the solid colors mess up the light values

I feel like palette ai would do a better job on the vest cause its really hard to capture that kind of look manually tbh

[native zealot]

yep

btw what is darkexmplar?

never heard of it

[pallid solstice]

i just tried it and it made it a mix of blue and grey unfortunately

[pallid solstice]

have you ever tried colour range?

or blend if?

they're both very helpful

i used to have multiple solid colour layers per thing, ranging in shade, then i would use blend if - a bit like a gradient map
but now i use Select > Colour Range, select whatever i want like the shadows, and make a black colour layer set to Colour blending modes

[pallid solstice]

it's a very good AI colouriser, it's quite hard to get set up because the installation takes ages - it's available on git hub
there is a website which hosts a demo but it takes a while to load anything

you can either colourise one frame, and make it match the rest which is what i did for the elvis video

or you can provide it multiple references and it tries to match it for each one

here's some Beatles ones that i'm working on

oh it didnt embed

i'm not too happy with the skin so i might re do it, this is still quite early on so by the end once i've made all my adjustments it could turn out well

[native zealot]

interesting

[native zealot]

yeah the skin doesnt look good

anything doesnt reslly look good in this one

and the color leaks everyehere there is not much detail 😦

[pallid solstice]

mhm

John's clip is quite good

teeth stay white

his lips go to skin tones straight away though - i definitely made them red

[pallid solstice]

i think the hair and microphone worked well in john's clip, but everything else i'll have to redo at some point