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[Biltongbru]

Playing around with photoshop to colourize some pics:



This is Attie Botha, kid looking man that was the first South African to shoot down 5 German aircraft. Got himself shot down and killed at age 19, his remains still somewhere in the vast Egyptian desert. Made this colour version for Attie's younger brother who is still alive today, got tears when this was handed to him.



Meet Hannes Faure, SA fighter pilot ace that became an RAF wing sweep leader. Did this colourizing for the Faure family who's son I have met recently.



SAAF 1 squadron in Italy, flying spits VIII and IX's in dive bombing missions with 500lb bombs under belly



SAAF Boston bombers in the desert; they played a massive role to stop Rommel at Alamein...

[SAS~Malone]

great job on those pics, mate!

[ggrewe]

Wow – great work Biltonbru.
The colour make it look so contemporary – like it could have been yesterday.
No wonder his bro. Got so emotional

[SAS~CirX]

wow, moerse bakgat ou maat!

[michel_boonstra1974]

Nice paint job Biltonbru, great pictures too ofcourse :-)
Love the way you kept the saturation soft, most coloring of black/white pictures tends to be overdone.

Maybe you already know, but Topaz Labs has great filters for photoshop (Topaz DeNoise, Clean, Detail, reFocus) that can get rid of noise, grain etc. I tend to use it when I need to retouch old or badly scanned photos.
Obviously a matter of personal taste how one should be retouching old photos, but here's an example of what is possible with a bit of 'smart sharpen', contrast adjust, Topaz deJpg and color correction:

[Biltongbru]

Nice paint job Biltonbru, great pictures too ofcourse :-)
Love the way you kept the saturation soft, most coloring of black/white pictures tends to be overdone.

Maybe you already know, but Topaz Labs has great filters for photoshop (Topaz DeNoise, Clean, Detail, reFocus) that can get rid of noise, grain etc. I tend to use it when I need to retouch old or badly scanned photos.
Obviously a matter of personal taste how one should be retouching old photos, but here's an example of what is possible with a bit of 'smart sharpen', contrast adjust, Topaz deJpg and color correction:

Thanks for info;  absolutely amazing what one can do with the graphics technology; thanks for the info!

[Moggy Cattermole]

This may be a bone question, but as an air force bod from a commonwealth nation, would his uniform not be RAF Blue (cossack blue..?)? I don't know, but RNZAF, RAAF and RCAF as well as RAF had identical uniforms (I believe). Just wondered, I don't actually know for certain.

[Biltongbru]

This may be a bone question, but as an air force bod from a commonwealth nation, would his uniform not be RAF Blue (cossack blue..?)? I don't know, but RNZAF, RAAF and RCAF as well as RAF had identical uniforms (I believe). Just wondered, I don't actually know for certain.

SAAF staff in ww2 had the similar Brown/khaki colour dress as the SA army. Also note that the SAAF officers had exactly the same ranking insignia as the army (pips, crown, etc)  and not the stripes of the RAF and other commonwealth Air Forces.

[Moggy Cattermole]

And there we go then. i did not know that. Cheers!

[Spinnetti]

Nice paint job Biltonbru, great pictures too ofcourse :-)
Love the way you kept the saturation soft, most coloring of black/white pictures tends to be overdone.

Maybe you already know, but Topaz Labs has great filters for photoshop (Topaz DeNoise, Clean, Detail, reFocus) that can get rid of noise, grain etc. I tend to use it when I need to retouch old or badly scanned photos.
Obviously a matter of personal taste how one should be retouching old photos, but here's an example of what is possible with a bit of 'smart sharpen', contrast adjust, Topaz deJpg and color correction:

Amazing stuff!

[DD_BadAim]

Very nice! Modern technology really brings our hobby (the bringing history to life aspect) to a whole new level, that I could not even imagine in the 80's reading my history books and building my model kits. Way to raise the bar.

[michel_boonstra1974]

Thanks again for the inspiration to colouring pictures, Biltongbru ! It is amazing what photoshop lets us do eh?
I've been playing around with colouring this picture of a Dutch aviator in front of his Fokker C.I scout plane.