Friday, October 12, 2012

holding on



 "all the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."


 - henry ellis

(black and white photographs colorized in photoshop)


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11 comments:

  1. What a clever masterpiece Beth!
    Bravo!

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  2. This is so cool! I love that quote, used it myself a time or two, and the look on her face is priceless. I love the coloring too! However did you do it?

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    1. it's the best way to "hand color" i've seen.... each part with a different color needs to be selected, copied, pasted in place (so I had layers on top of each person like dress, skin, eyes, hair, lips, etc.) For each of these layers I clipped an hue/ saturation adjustment layer (clicking the box for "colorize") and played with the sliders until I got the color I wanted.
      here is a link to the tutorial I watched that got me started:
      http://youtu.be/cGc7oGWIrGg
      (if the link doesn't work you could google it... it's a youtube video "turning a black and white photo into color" where they colorize marilyn monroe's lips.

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  3. What fun! Love the quote with your playful image!

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  4. Fantastic. Great quote and oh so dramatic image. I was thinking it made perfect sense that the woman was the one with her head on her shoulders and the man with his in the clouds. xox

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  5. That is really a masterpiece!Love the facial expressions, the colors and the quote is so clever and impressive pictured.
    I'm excited!

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  6. Oh that made me laugh when I first saw it, and yet there's such a depth of meaning to it.

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  7. You are getting way ahead of me Beth I need to check in more often...the last three posts are fabulous I love your imagination and techniques beautiful work! This one is delightful and my favorite of the three...simply awesome my friend!

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