COLORIZATION PROJECT
just for the fun I started in 2017 to colorise some of our old family black and white photo’s using the classic (no AI) layering techniques in Photoshop. Of course I had to scan them first using my Epson V600 and ‘clean and remove all spots and scratches from the digital files before starting the colouring process, but that was (for me) also part of the fun. Check here some of the photo’s I did and see how old photo’s live up and how my parents, grand parents, my uncle Oom Jan who died in the 2nd World War and other close family members started to live up again even from photo’s made around 1920.
All photo’s colorized by Jan van der Gaag using #Photoshop, layer by layer / no AI is used …
13 October 1957 ~ kickoff by American Movie star, Jayne Mansfield prior to the legendary Sparta vs DOS match in Rotterdam | Foto: Kees Molkenboer | © Nederlands Fotomuseum
Photo: Cas Oorthuys _ Beursplein Rotterdam (1956) ©Nederlands Fotomuseum
Photo: Cas Oorthuys _ Parkhaven Rotterdam (1954) ©Nederlands Fotomuseum
Two brothers: Jan and Gerrit van der Gaag ± 1920 - My uncle left with my father at the right side
My uncle Oom Jan | 17.9.1916 - 27.2.1942 Died in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27th February 1942
My uncle Oom Jan | 17.9.1916 - 27.2.1942 Died in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27th February 1942
My uncle Oom Jan | 17.9.1916 - 27.2.1942 Died in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27th February 1942
My mother Maria (Riet) van der Gaag van den Berg | 1922 - 1986
My mother, father and sister ...
My father's football team ± 1938 ~ the club was probably Hillegersberg or Xerxes Rotterdam my father at the front row outmost right, my uncle (Oom Lou) friend of my father, at the front second from left …
Wedding photo of my parents Gerrit van der Gaag and Maria (Riet) van den Berg | 16 November 1949
my grandparents and my aunt (Tante Ger - older sister of my mother) probably early 1922
Wedding photo of my Grandparents, Leendert van den Berg and Woutrina van Campen - married 14-5-1919
My Grandmother Woutrina van Campen (around 1919)
My Grandfather Leendert van den Berg (around 1919)