Colorization behind the scenes (click to see more)


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It occurred to me that some readers might be interested in the steps I go through to colorize and enhance these old images. For this is no typical, auto-cranked-out porn or erotica site. Each colorized image is carefully worked on by me to produce the best result I am capable of.

Above you see a guy munching away on a girl's pussy. She has her eyes closed and looks to be off in dreamland somewhere. We can imagine her later returning the favor, locking those red lips around his cock. 

Here's the black and white image I started with. I would guess it to be from the 1910s, possibly the 1920s. Photos of that age present some difficulties that more recent ones (say, images made in the 1940s onward) often do not. They are frequently grainy, with poor contrast, both of which make colorization difficult. Still, I do what I can with them!



The first step I take is bringing the image into one of my photo editing programs and enhancing it, which usually means improving the contrast and brightness, eliminating at least some of the graininess and erasing any unwanted spots or other degradation. Here is the result in this instance:



Now things get fun! I take the cleaned-up b&w image and run it through an AI colorization app. Sometimes the results are pretty amazing, but many times they leave a lot to be desired. In this case I felt that the colorization was a start — but just a start.



I now bring the image into Photoshop and go to work on it. This can include many things, but typically I almost always have to adjust the color, as well as correct any areas where the AI simply guessed wrong. Brightness, contrast, hue, saturation — all these and more have to be tinkered with and tweaked. Often it's a matter of simply playing around with different elements until it all looks right to me.

Look back at above image. One thing that bothered me was that the poor girl's nipples seemed to have completely disappeared! I brought them back. They're still not particularly prominent — blame that on their indistinctness in the original photo — but at least they exist again.



My last step involves taking a final look to see if there's anything at all I can do to make the final result more satisfactory. In this case, I used a "denoising" program to take out even more of the graininess. I don't always do this because denoising sometimes removes detail that I prefer to leave in, but it seemed to work OK here. Here I also heightened the redness of the girl's lips. Finally, I tweaked the contrast some more.



I hope you enjoyed this quick tour of my vintage erotica colorization process. It really is a labor of love. It is also why this blog will likely grow slowly, albeit steadily. Colorization that meets my personal standards takes time.


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