LoneSky

I am posting these two colorizations I made of 1940s starlet Veronica Lake without any commentary on Lake herself. There are loads of great glamour photos of her available online. I don't even remember where I got them but they should not be hard to find with an image search. I wanted to try a few techniques I've seen other colorists employ, notably by the prolific and talented Jecinci . These are color fringing/chroma noise and colored backlighting. To my eye at least, the former give the work a photographic feel, simulating lens artifacts and color film grain, while the latter adds visual punch. Veronica Lake colorized with amber backlighting. For the backlighting I added a layer with the blend mode set to overlay. Then I simply painted over the areas where I thought light should fall. The blend mode does a lot of the work. There are different ways to simulate color fringing. For these images I separated the colorized photographs into their red, green, and blue compo...