Colourising B&W Images

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A little late to the party, but I just discovered that Photoshop has a new toy called "Neural Filters".

One of these filters is a complete AI recolouring of B&W images. I thought it would be interesting to see how it performed with IR film and it looks weird. Not sure if I like it but it's certainly different!

Apologies for the quality. I had to hatchet it down to the sub 100k mark...

Kodak HIE on Canon F-1n
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Anyone else used this? Obviously not much use if you don't have the Adobe plan...
 
On the other hand, if I want my IR images in colour, I do not convert to B&W.

Dave
 
So it's like a goldie (590nm), which is an interesting AI interpretation off the original image (ie I'm curious about why the AI took that option)
 
lindsay56 said:
So it's like a goldie (590nm), which is an interesting AI interpretation off the original image (ie I'm curious about why the AI took that option)
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I guess it has no clue it's IR. The blue sky on the left up against the trees is still black in the coloured image. Not perfect by a long chalk, but still very clever IMO.
 
Dave Canon said:
On the other hand, if I want my IR images in colour, I do not convert to B&W.
Dave
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Sadly there is no realistic colour option for IR on film.
 
Harlequin565 said:
Sadly there is no realistic colour option for IR on film.
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Had not noticed it was a film thread. When I used film, I did try IR film B&W but it was very touchy to expose correctly and they did have a colour version but that was long ago. I never tried the colour version but the results were like an early PS filter. In fact one of the problems with digital colour IR is that it can look like a Naff PS filter to many so I generally stick to B&W.

Dave
 
Harlequin565 said:
Sadly there is no realistic colour option for IR on film.
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Once upon a time, several lifetimes ago, Kodak made an IR Ektachrome film which was colour . It gave yellow skin, magenta foliage and other colour shifts. I used to use it quite a bit when I were a lad.
 
john.margetts said:
Once upon a time, several lifetimes ago, Kodak made an IR Ektachrome film which was colour . It gave yellow skin, magenta foliage and other colour shifts. I used to use it quite a bit when I were a lad.
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Aerochrome, wasn't it?

It's a shame these things are no longer available. While not something I'd shoot all the time if it was still around, it would be nice for the occasional use, I've seen some spectacular images made with it.

Link to Google image search...
 
FishyFish said:
Aerochrome, wasn't it?

It's a shame these things are no longer available. While not something I'd shoot all the time if it was still around, it would be nice for the occasional use, I've seen some spectacular images made with it.

Link to Google image search...
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No, Ektachrome, not Aerochrome.
 
john.margetts said:
Ektachrome
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Was it developed in C41 or E6 (or something else?) do you know? I have an eBay watch for it but never see anything approaching a reasonable price.
 
It was developed for me by a lab but it was definitely Ektachrome.

Edit: I am remembering the best part of 50 years ago. I would have taken the film to West End Cameras in Redruth for developing. C41 and E6 were still in the future back then.
 
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