Photoshop help, colorize pic?

[jerrygarcia]

Is it possible to colorize and sharpen a b/w photo? I need a b/w made into color for a retirement party. I need help from the Photoshop wizards out there. OuT?

The fire truck is red and his shirt is navy blue, big hose is yellow and hose cover is red. Walls and whatever else can be any light color. (No Pink!)

[OuTpaTienT]

I'll see what I can do, but that's a very low quality image to work with.

[brandon184]

I'm not sure what skill level I'm at with colorizing images; but this is what I came up with... I have no idea if it's even remotely satisfactory. (I doubt it.)

If not, maybe it'll at least give OuT some ideas.

[Creatures]

that's really good brandon! nice job, maybe i gonna try it too, but so far i just colorized simple pictures

Creatures

[brandon184]

It doesn't look very realistic, IMO. I'll try again tomorrow.

[jerrygarcia]

If I could do it, I would. Brandon, you got parts of that pic almost back to the original. Wow, didn't think it was possible. You got the lockers the right color too.


I don't want to sound critical because I'm asking for something I cannot do myself. Is there any refinement?

The story behind the pic is; my driver at the fire department just retired after 33 years. He bought a Harley last year and driving it to work, he hit a deer on the highway. Killed the deer, banged him up. Cleaning the station one day, we found this styrofoam deer target and someone had ridden their motorcycle. We ended up with this deer's revenge picture. I had the original on my PC at work. I ran a cleaning program that Fyxxer32 suggested and it wiped all of my pictures off of my machine. (Fyxxer32 is a personal friend of mine, he drives Pumper 32 and is here on the forums. Actually, he's the one that got me to TechIMO after the blow up at the 'other' place.) This pic is for a collage for his retirement party on the 10th.

I printed this pic the day I took it on an HP 2100 B/W laser printer. It is the only pic left and it is a scanned image. The only way I could get this was to have it scanned and emailed to me. If someone wants the original scanned image, I could email it to them.

Thanks for all of your help and efforts.

[jerrygarcia]

Any help?

[brandon184]

Sorry - I have strange hours.

I'll work some more on it and see what I can do.

[OuTpaTienT]

The thing is, the quality of the image is so atrociously poor, I find it difficult to believe it's worth anyone's time. Sorry but that's the truth, it's a really bad image.

I only just begun some preliminary coloring steps (attached) but geeez, even the best colorization isn't going to help the image that much. It's too low res, and too poor quality.

But now I'm confused. What are you saying? That there's a higher resolution scan available? Why would you wait till now to mention that? After people, including myself, have already spent (wasted) time on this poor quality low res image? Or maybe the scan is poor quality too and really makes no difference? I don't know.

But I'm certainly not investing any more time until I know what's going on. Please clear this up and maybe me or someone else will still be willing to help you out. Bottom line, this image is practically worthless, we NEED a higher quality image.

[brandon184]

Yeah.. A higher quality image would make the process a lot easier.

The attached is based upon improvements from my last copy.