EVERY U.S President in Color | 1789 - 2020 | Jackson, Lincoln, The Roosevelt's and many more!
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2020
- I used Photoshop to bring to life the 26 U.S Presidents who only exist in Black and White Photography, so every President could be seen as they once were!
Using Photoshop to bridge the gap from the mid 1800s really helped me to see these men as they once were.
I did an interview for History Colored, check it out here!
historycolored.com/articles/4...
IMAGE SOURCES
(I only have 5000 characters, so full credits, catalog numbers, and Image locations in video credits!)
George Washington
npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.200...
John Adams
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Thomas Jefferson
npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.99.66
James Madison
npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.68.50
James Monroe
npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.70.59
John Quincy Adams
www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.201...
Andrew Jackson
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/200...
www.loc.gov/item/2004664005/
Martin Van Buren
www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
William Henry Harrison
www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
John Tyler
www.chsmedia.org:8081/ipac20/i...
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
James K. Polk
www.loc.gov/pictures/resource...
Zachary Taylor
www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
Millard Fillmore
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/201...
Franklin Pierce
npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.86.166
James Buchanan
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Abraham Lincoln
www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.1...
Andrew Johnson
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/965...
Reproduction Number [LC-USZ62-13017]
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Ulysses S. Grant
www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.00...
Rutherford B. Hayes
www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.03...
James A. Garfield
www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.03...
Reproduction Number [LC-DIG-cwpbh-03744]
Chester A. Arthur
www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a53...
Grover Cleveland
www.loc.gov/item/2016713082/
Reproduction Number [LC-DIG-bellcm-25644]
Benjamin Harrison
www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.03...
Reproduction Number [LC-DIG-cwpbh-03891]
William McKinley
www.loc.gov/item/2016689259/
Theodore Roosevelt
www.loc.gov/item/2002718198/
William Howard Taft
www.loc.gov/resource/hec.15145/
Woodrow Wilson
www.loc.gov/resource/hec.16837/
Warren G. Harding
www.loc.gov/resource/hec.18296/
Calvin Coolidge
www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.3...
Herbert Hoover
www.loc.gov/item/2016859603/
Franklin D. Roosevelt
www.fdrlibrary.org/perskie
www.flickr.com/photos/fdrlibr...
creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Harry S. Truman
National Archives Identifier [7865583]
catalog.archives.gov/id/7865583
Dwight D. Eisenhower
www.history.navy.mil/content/...
numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/USA-C/USA-C-2182.html
John F. Kennedy
www.jfklibrary.org/asset-view...
JFKWHP-1963-07-11-D?image_identifier=JFKWHP-ST-C237-1-63
Lyndon B. Johnson
www.flickr.com/photos/iip-pho...
Richard Nixon
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Gerald Ford
(NAID) 530680
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Jimmy Carter
.(NAID) 179156
catalog.archives.gov/id/179156
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Ronald Reagan
National Archives Identifier [75854209]
catalog.archives.gov/id/75854209
George H. W. Bush
bush41library.tamu.edu/audiov...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...,
_1989_official_portrait.jpg
Bill Clinton
catalog.archives.gov/id/7891095
George W. Bush
www.loc.gov/resource/ppbd.00371/
Barack Obama
www.loc.gov/resource/ppbd.00358/
Reproduction Number
Donald Trump
www.loc.gov/item/2017645723/
This video was not made in any collaborative way with any of the image holders.
#History #Photoshop #Presidents #Restoration
I look good
Yes ABSOLUTELY
Those cheekbones
Well, sorry to be so blunt, but ... No.
@@colinbagel860 yeah
@@hi1gr196 ok
FDR was the first President when we had color photography.
and first President to be photograph is John Quincy Adams, photography missed on James Madison who died in 1836
Yeah that's true
Biden felt like that kid waiting in line to receive a handshake but the officer turned around once he shook the hand of the second to last.
That photo of him always breaks my heart a little though. He's only about 61 there, but he looks so much older. You can see the strain of his undiagnosed heart failure and the years of polio and being president on his face.
@@juniorsir9521 This video was released in May 2020.
Sadly, we never had a founding father American President to be photographed
The closest thing we got his John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson, though not a founder was alive during the founding.
JQA And jackson?
@@PixelGunZodiac They were alive during the revolution and as the government was being set up; but they were too young to participate in it.
@@jasonmcdaniel345 Yep,that's the closest thing we will ever get to a founding father having his picture taken.
I remember one time when I was a kid, I was gifted a book that was simply just photos of WWII airplanes and their ground crews, all originally shot in technicolor, and restored. You'd swear the photos were taken yesterday, and it just made the whole thing so much more relatable. I'm no stranger to grayscale, as my dad exposed me when growing up to all sorts of movies dating all the way back to the time of silent films, but you watch an old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance number in black and white, then see a colorized remaster with the original set and costume designers used as consultants on what the colors should look like, and your jaw drops at the sheer beauty and glamor of the dance number.
I've always been fascinated with light/color, even my first word at 17-months-old was "light." I'm glad people like you bring color to this world!
I've actually been learning photo restoration and coloring, too, starting with photos of my dad taken in basic training and while serving in the Vietnam War. That war was horrid, we had no business being there according to my dad (who volunteered because no one would hire men eligible for the draft), and restoring his faded color photos has been a real eye-opener, bringing the photos to life.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment. I'm glad that it sounds like the restoration process on your fathers pictures is allowing you to better connect with a part of your family history. :)
How much free time u got
@@JBColourisation 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I remember several years ago when MGM decided to colorize many films in its library. While something like a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rodgers film may have been enhanced, when I saw a color version of “Casablanca” I damned near gagged. Films like that are best left in Black & White.
Martin Van Buren thinking about how hes gonna remove Jackson's 700lb cheese wheel from the white house
Jackson: 👁👄👁
According to my mom I am related to Martin van buren
@@CinmnTstCrnchChrros gamer moment
@@CinmnTstCrnchChrros nice
@@CinmnTstCrnchChrros I’m related to the current prime minister of The Bahamas Islands. His name is Hubert Minnis. He’s a cousin of my Great-Grandmother
Is it just me, or does Taft seem like the kind of dude you'd want to have a beer and a friendly chat with? He had this really friendly type vibe that I can't quite explain
He might have had a few too many...he was by the "healthiest" President (300+ lbs)
John Smith To his credit, he did lose quite a bit of the weight at one point.
He does have that "sit in that chair son, lemme share another story with ya" kind of look
LumixStormer I think it's the mustache lmao
If I remember correctly he was a good guy to be around.
George Washington: Father of our country
James Knox Polk: Father of the mullet
and "Napoleon of the stump"
And the *cholera catcher*
Excuse me james what
Ah yes James Polk has learned the New Zealand ways
Father of someone else's country
One of my favorite aspects of this is that there was more texture added to the skin than you could see when the photo was black an white
Hello John
Why did you privately call hamilton creole bastard?
@@aaronburrsir5047 Because he is one smh
@@natalollipop_art Well, damn, he got hella mad, have you heard the cut adams administration rap? It's crazy.
@@aaronburrsir5047 Yeah, he lied and said I fired him when, in reality, he quit. You don't just quit your job and write a PUBLIC pamphlet about how much you hate a guy when I mocked him in private.
This just further proves it’d be criminal if Alec Baldwin doesn’t portray Millard Fillmore at least once in his career.
SO TRUE! :)
This is the best comment ever written
Nothing really interesting happened during filmore’s career to make a movie about
@Sgt. VinDoy something SNL-related?
@@haha-lj5sq Well he could make a sketch about the know nothing party, the party that he joined after the whigs collapsed, the know nothing party was a nativist anti-immigration and anti-catholic party
Millard Fillmore looks like an older, portlier Alec Baldwin! The resemblance is uncanny.
He really does! :)
Finally someone noticed it
Right!!!
Yes I always thought of A Baldwin as the original Hot Mess. Possibly not 😆
would be cool If there was ever a biopic film about him, It would be cool to see Baldwin play Fillmore
Andrew Jackson looks like a kind old man who would be selling candies in a local store...really doesnt fit his character.
He looks like the type of guy to adopt native Americans as his children, thusly saving their life. Wait, he actually did that.
@@8is he also looks like the type of guy to force the natives out of their territory, killing tens of thousands. Oh wait he did that!
@@lyndonbainesjohnson9178 he also looks like a guy who could give 0 fucks oh wait he did give 0 fucks
@@lyndonbainesjohnson9178 Based.
@@lyndonbainesjohnson9178 Nah, he looks way nicer than that. It's a testimate that you can't judge someone by their looks, or judge them by a few of their actions because people are really weird. One day he is the racist to do the most damage, and the other day he is adopting them as his own children to save their life.
3:20 something about Nixon’s picture not quite covering up the picture behind it is just... perfect.
69th like
116th
Little Nod to His Corruption and him usually hiding things. I think it is a pretty cool easter egg
I can't be the only one who forgot they had skin color and always looked at them as black and white
😳. Honestly? Like Dorothy Gale on the family farm in Kansas didn’t have color until the tornado took her to Oz?
That’s how I feel about anything prior to the mid 1960s in general lol, I can’t picture a colorful 1900 world
Yeah that’s why racism started ending around the same time color pics started. Less black and white. /s
@@catholicjake7320 racism never ended sadly and it might never end considering their are still slaves in modern world
@@catholicjake7320 and discrimination still exist heavily in today’s world
Thank you, now i can finally see obama in full colour
barry and mike the first gay couple in the white house
@@ElCid48 this deserves more likes
0:27 amazing that we have a photograph of the son of John Adams himself, this president went with him to France at the later half and end of the American Revolution when he was a kid.
It's really a shame, John Quincy was way ahead of his time. He was far too intelligent for that era of American history. His ideas for infrastructure etc were considered to be impossible in the eyes of many. He's probably looking down at the world now like "I knew it..."
@@dennist.8210 pretty much, he was reportedly the smartest president we had in terms of iq too, surpassing even Thomas Jefferson. He seemed like a bit of an introvert of his time. All in all, I think he had a lot of potential and bright ideas
@@marajadeskywalker5992 Absolutely.
@@dennist.8210 Supposedly he had the Highest Presidential I.Q. ......
@@henryw.elliott499
The 1824 election was dirty as hell on both sides.
Adams didn't really steal it. Nobody won a plurality of the popular vote or got the required amount of electoral votes. Under the Constitution, the election was ultimately decided by the House of Representatives. While Adams did select House Speaker Henry Clay as his Secretary of State (the stepping stone to the Presidency in those days) the election was still legal, and there was no reason to believe that the state deligations
who mostly regarded Jackson as a dangerous rabble-rouser, would have elected him regardless of any backroom dealing.
Did Adams get elected in a cut-throat manner? Probably. But it wasn't stealing.
Grover Cleveland in 1893
“GUESS WHO’S BACK!”
Trump 2025
“GROVER'S BACK!”
JOHN CENA
@@dawnogradytom5206 no it is cleaved
JOHN CENA OHHHHHHHHH
Wow, the 22nd president and 24th looks so similar. They even have the same names. Are they twins?
No, Its Just That Grover Cleveland was Elected as President Again.
Reynaldo Alfaro r/woooosh
@@thealbumreviewer2889 Whilst your comment was obviously a joke, it was also rubbish.
@@thealbumreviewer2889 reddit moment big chungus fortnite bad minecraft good 69 420 funny number1!1!1! Keanu Reeves wholesome 100 red is sus pewdiepie epic nobody we did it reddit
Man that joke wasn’t that good and you really had to do the “funny reddit thing”
Oddly enough, they look younger and more realistic when portrayed in color. Awesome video!
Idk but Lincoln looks like my grandpa, but a bit taller, lighter skin, and bigger ears.
Plot twist: Lincoln is ur grandpa
My grandpa
Did
Not get shot
@@arthurgeorge5474 do you know what a joke is? If your reply was a joke then I feel like a dumbass, but yeah. It was a joke
@@arthurgeorge5474 Plot Twist: Your grandpa did get shot
@@arthurgeorge5474 That's what he wants you to think
I don't understand why someone would give a thumbs down to work like this, but I suppose there's one in every crowd. This is fascinating and magnificent.
Wait, this video has no dislikes.
These are all criminals, they hated the indigenous people, stole our lands, starved us, raped our women and tortured us, murdered us
Ulysses Grant in color looks like a modern day middle aged general.
Maybe because he was a middle aged general
@@stefan5573 I guess. But that hairstyle wasn’t really common in the mid 1800s nor his beard.
He was the very model of a modern middle aged general.
@@troodon1096 He probably had information vegetable, animal and mineral.
Agreed😀
I must say, Ulysses S. Grant is a handsome man
Interesting fact Even though Grant was a West Point graduate, just before the Civil War he had fallen on hard times. He had to resort to selling firewood on the street to make ends meet when a classmate of his recognized him.
He does look very good
@@brianmiller1077 he certainly moved up in the world
Yeah i agree, he's quite a good looking fella. Especially that portrait of him sitting with his leg crossed.
thanks
I looked great, I prepared for this picture by rubbing Vaseline on my head
noice, well, good for u.
Ya
i just woke up and got photographed,
It just works!
@@Old_Hickory_Jackson if I put 2$ with 20$ we have 22$
My favorite was the restoration of Rutherford B. Hayes. I was blown away by the realism and detail of this restoration - especially in contrast to the original and some of the ones that came after. The skin texture (pores!), the eyes and the nose. After your colorization it looks like he could just open his mouth and speak at any moment. Whoa! Your colorization really does make these men seem far more human and familiar. In some cases you can almost imagine their personality and whether they're the sort of person you can see yourself talking to or wanting to know. Incredibly well done!
Oh, and I'm also quite interested in restoration and photo editing myself, and have privately dabbled a bit over the years, so watching your process in the other video was really insightful. I'm entirely self-taught, so it was interesting to see the various methods we have in common. :)
This is perhaps the best use of technology, history, and video making I've ever seen. Thank you so much.
It's as soon as you see the pictures in colour, they magically come back to life.
I always thought JFK’s hair was redder than that. Interesting.
Fuuuuuck this took me a second
Damnnn
Interesting
It became redder STILL after he was shot.
Huh.
3:48 Truly, president in color
00:50 : Clint Eastwood
1:08 : Alec Baldwin
1:19 : Anthony Hopkins
2:17 : Chubby Christian Bale
1:02 : kinda looks like Jeffery Epstein 💀
kinda did look like Epstein
You forgot the monopoly guy in 2:31
"The pain of losing loved ones is someone I have seen so I know how you must have felt when they killed Jeffrey Epstein"
I think James Buchanan looks more like Bill Murray than Anthony Hopkins.
I feel like Steve McQueen looks more like John Tyler
"I didn't lose!, I merely failed to win!" - General George B. McClellan
So you watch oversimplified too
@@asterixcacher8136 yeah
Good :D
1:12 I didn't know mitt romney was president before.
I never knew there was an actual photo of Andrew Jackson it’s pretty cool
There's another one of him as a very old man who still looks like he could throw down 😂 I'd love to see that one restored
Henry W. Elliott One of the bystanders who pulled Jackson off was apparently Davy Crockett. You can't make this stuff up lmao
I went on tik tok one time and a guy said andrew Jackson is racist and I don't believe it what he did wrong?
@@Bruhi720 killing native americans? Thinking whith are superior
@@Bruhi720 that he can steal the natives land
Love this! Your talent is enviable
Thank you sir!! :D
Is it just me or does Abe Lincoln slowly start to smile
My gosh your right- after I saw this comment and looked at the picture I was freaking out
Anybody see Tommy Lee Jones when looking at Andrew Johnson?
And Sir Anthony Hopkins when looking at James Buchanan.
When yes Tommy Lee Jones does look like Johnson
@@benn454 I always thought James Buchanan looked very similar to John Lithgow
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Complete Beginners Photoshop Guide ua-cam.com/video/H9JkrYTdNfA/v-deo.html Lots of helpful information for those starting out, or looking to improve their Photoshop knowledge :)
I made a follow up with other Historical Figures Here! :D ua-cam.com/video/WyCtypLnPAk/v-deo.html
Also, credits wise, it's been rightfully pointed out to me that I should have credited the original painters and photographers and while i included links to their original credited pictures in the descriptions and credits, I'll now name them here:
George Washington by Gilbert Stuart
John Adams by Gilbert Stuart
Thomas Jefferson by Mather Brown
James Madison by Chester Harding
James Monroe by John Vanderlyn
John Quincy Adams by Phillip Haas
Andrew Jackson by Thomas Doney and Mathew B Brady
Martin Van Buren by Mathew B Brady
William Henry Harrison by Albert Sands Southworth
John Tyler by J. M. Edwards and Edward Anthony
James K Polk by Mathew B Brady
Zachary Taylor by Albert Sands Southworth
Millard Fillmore by Mathew B Brady
Franklin Pierce by Albert Sands Southworth
James Buchanan by Mathew B Brady
Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner
Andrew Johnson by Mathew B Brady
Ulysses S Grant by Mathew B Brady
Rutherford B. Hayes by Mathew B Brady
James Garfield by Mathew B Brady
Chester A. Arthur by Charles Milton Bell
Grover Cleveland by Charles Milton Bell
Benjamin Harrison by Mathew B Brady
William McKinley by Charles Milton Bell
Theodore Roosevelt by Pach Bros
William Howard Taft by Harris and Ewing
Woodrow Wilson by Harris and Ewing
Warren G. Harding by Harris and Ewing
Calvin Coolidge by Bain News Service
Herbert Hoover by Harris and Ewing
Franklin D. Roosevelt by Leon A. Perskie
Harry S. Truman by Uncredited army Photographer, {pls comment if you know! }
Dwight D Eisenhower By Uncredited Army singel Corps
{pls comment if you know! }
John F Kennedy by Cecil Stoughton
Lyndon B. Johnson by Arnold Newman
Richard Nixon by Oliver F. Atkins (?)
Gerald Ford by David Hume kennerly(?)
Jimmy Carter by Unknown, no offical W.H photographer
{pls comment if you know! }
Ronald Reagan by Pete Souza
George H.W Bush by David Valdez (?)
Bill Clinton by Robert McNeely (?)
George W Bush by Eric Draper
Barack Obama by Pete Souza
Donald Trump by Shealah Craighead (?)
The earlier ones looked somewhere in between a painting and early colour photos, and they looked more and more real the closer we got to actual colour photography.
Not a very astute observation but I thought it was neat.
Apparently up until Andrew Johnson the white house did not have a proper barber.
Yeah look at Buchanan’s hair
@@gregoryf4186I'm from d.c. and I can honestly say it must have been the style of the time's
0:16 My man got a mcDonalds Hairline
2:53 Hoover actually had a color photo from 1958
Its creepy seeing these older presidents, just looking at a dead man. You can just see some of these men, just looking at them shows their brilliance and it just creeps me out seeing how they were. Looking at abraham in color just gives me chills.
How is it creepy? It helps you realize their time was just as modern and real to them as our time is to us. And that we too will pass on forever.
3:49 I’ve seen this imaged memed so many times that looking back at the original, his face just looks photoshopped on
I know its not mindblowing, like at all, but they look exactly like people today and I don't understand why that's so mindblowing to me.
I think homo sapiens have remained relatively unchanged for a couple million years.
@@macaryl95 no no, it’s the last 100000 years that we looked the same. Before that you can see some small to big differences
@@zzztriplezzz5264 Choose your next words carefully before the sjws get you.
Man,I wish I can somehow met them. So much history, I don't know why but I actually almost cry watching this
Which one in particular would you like to have met and what would you have said or asked him Ryan?
@@georgealderson4424 I don't know,but maybe Lincoln
@@klast8201 I don't know how old you are of course but maybe you could have asked him round for tea instead of him going to the theatre then you would have saved his life!
Thank you for this! I am myself working on a cartoony representation of every president and this helped me out a lot!
Whoever disliked: Remember this guy did hard work to restore these photos of presidents.
This deserves more views!
This is awesome. Thanks for the hard work, and upload.
The background music is kinda emotional
I wish I knew the names of those songs
@@destinymfletcher The two tracks were First Sleep By Sir Cubworth And Shattered Paths By Aakash Gandhi
I love how photographs looked at the start of the 1800s.
Great work! Really brings them to life. It might be interesting to see a video of every president in "aged" black-and-white photo style, or even turned into paintings in the style of Washington's portrait. I imagine the Trump would fit in with some of the early 1800's presidents (I just mean visually, not trying to make a political statement) in old black-and-white style.
Thank you very much! And that's a fascinating suggestion which I'll certainly consider for a future video! :)
Thanks for making this video! I really deserve it!
I appreciate that you took the time to do this
This is so far the nicest thing I've got in my recommendation maybe youtube algorithm started working
It is always a pleasure to see his work. It never ceases to amaze us.
I would like to tell you something.
I took a color photo and converted it to black and white. I have tried to color it with the original tones and the truth is that I do not succeed. Is it the same with you? Or is it that no matter how hard you try it will never be identical to the original? Thank you.
I've tried similar before and it's certainly very difficult to get 100% accurate colours. Human skin tones in particular have thousands of very subtle tones and that's before you look at all the ways light hits the skin and changes those colours even more. That being said skin tones also vary tremendously from person to person and I think that if you have them 'close enough' to real skin tones it will look fine as long as it's not directly compared. :)
@@JBColourisation It's also interesting that some colors look wrong in black and white. For example, the old Superman TV show in the 1950s uses a brown costume instead of a blue costume, because the blue one didn't look right in black and white, so they deliberately used brown to accommodate the grayscale. Another prime example is many people - myself included - for years thought Lucille Ball was a blonde, but she's actually a redhead, and her shade of ginger-red hair comes across as blonde. Kinda funny when you think of George Washington, you picture an old man with a white wig, but there are portraits of him as a young man, and he had long, flowing ginger-red hair, and was built like a steakhouse, lol. Photos and paintings are but a snapshot of a moment in time from one - sometimes two - angles, and it's amazing how much detail is truly lost.
Wow, this is awesome!
Talk about seeing history in a new light.
That's very kind of you to say, thank you! :)
i missed Washington 😭
Anyone curious as to how pictures in the early 1900s are higher quality than modern security cameras?
I frequently take old photos that people post on Facebook that have turned yellow or purple and fix the colors so they look correct and I'm good at restoring photos and removing unwanted objects from photos or completely changing photos. It's a fun way to pass the time.
Coming back 1 year later and im still crying over the music
What music did you use in the background? Very beautiful. Loved your work on these colonizations, keep it up!
Hi! Thanks for reminding me to credit these! :) The two tracks are First Sleep by Sir Cubworth and Shattered Paths by Aakash Gandhi, both are part of the UA-cam audio library and have also been uploaded separately as videos by people. :) EDIT: Also, thank you very much! :)
JBColourisation thanks man, and you’re welcome, too.
Does anyone else see the visualized cultural shift from Kennedy onward? Every president post-Kennedy is smiling in their presidential portrait (including Trump, just not in the specific portrait this video used,) save LBJ, the immediate follow-up to Kennedy. I think this perfectly illustrates the general shift in culture during/after the Kennedy era.
0:27 40 years before the picture was taken George Washington was president. Imagine if the camera was there on time for the other past presidents.
Photograph was invented around early 1820s and first photo taken was in 1826, same year John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, but they really missed on James Madison who died in 1836
Too bad they couldn't have used the "camera obscura" on them back then.
Leonardo DaVinci perfected it back in the 16th Century.
Niepce *sort-of* perfected his heliography process back in the 1810s, but the heliographs (basically the same thing as photographs, only it used a different process) he took back then were destroyed during reproduction attempts in the 1820s. If he had taken a boat to America, there's a chance he could've taken a long-exposure portrait photo of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, assuming that they would've agreed (why wouldn't they?)..
This video is really good, I was surprised that it only had 300,000+ views (6/6/21) it deserves 1,000,000+ views
I never thought I’d see Obama in color
Hey dude, I love your videos and have recently begun colourising my grandparents old photos after having watched your GIMP tutorial! Just two quick questions if I may! Do you use a drawing tablet when colourising or do you stick to mouse? Also do you plan on doing more narration videos in the future that focus more on explaining what you're doing as you're going along? Thankyou!
Hi, thank you very much! In answer to the first question, I use a small budget Wacom tablet I got about 5 years ago, the CTH-480. It's what I used for every colourisation to date. If you're thinking of getting a tablet, both Wacom and Huion are very well regarded and when I eventually either have to replace, or choose to upgrade, this tablet I'll certainly look to get one from one of them. And to the second question, yes indeed! I actually recorded most of these presidents while i worked on them, so i would at least have the option to potentially do individual in depth videos for them in the future. I'm not sure that my next in depth narrated video will be one from this project but I'm certainly planning on doing more videos of that type, alongside possibly more like this. Out of interest, which steps would you like to see me go more into detail with, with either the restoration of colourisation of a picture? :)
@@JBColourisation Awesome I actually ordered a Wacom tablet today so I hope it'll be a lot easier now! Im not really sure what I'd like to see in particular but I just like seeing other peoples thought/working process as I can then incorporate them into my own! For example I've been using your blue beard technique for getting that 5 o'clock shadow! One of the things I struggle with is skin and its helpful seeing how you use layers to give it the extra detail so I think that talking through your color choices could be cool!
@@ryaninker1356 Thank you for the information, it's useful! Along with the regular process videos I'll consider doing some super in depth individual tutorials possibly? On certain elements such as skin. :)
I looked fine
Lol
Wow that is amazing! Great job!👍
You did a wonderful job!
The perfect music for Buchanan.
Amazing work! I hope this video blows up 😉
Thank you very much! We shall see, but if it does you were still the first comment!! :D
This was amazing. Thank you
This is literally incredible.
Some of those pictures were taken years after they left office
nothing really wrong with it right?
Lydon B. Johnson just chilling with his chair
Ahh the presence of great men!! This made my night, here!!
Wow that was really cool. Brings them to life
Damn seeing Obama in color was so weird
Lol 😂 I’m dying!!!!!
Don't worry his soul is still black.
@Frankie Ortiz Bin Laden
Well, he IS a man of "color"!
@@jacksonk.fozzbodie213 must have meant trump, the one term loser 😂
Is it me or did a lot of our presidents have blue eyes???
No sh*t
Andrew Jackson gave me chills. Man was around during the revolution, and you got the picture to look like that... I’m shook
Jackson himself was a POW in the revolution, & was a general in the War of 1812
old presidents: 🧐 new presidents:😀
2023: this was cringe me 1 year ago, but the colorization is very good!
it is really a good source of modern people getting to know them better.
The image at 1:18 of James Buchanan reminds me of Father Jack Hackett in the Father Ted TV series
I thought exactly the same thing!
I just love how genuinely happy Reagan looks
And george H.W bush
If you won 49 states in ur re-election u would be glowing just like him
@@Eli-xu4up FDR won 500+ EV in all his elections (except for 400+ in 1994) and he wasn't glowin'. Why?
@@Atlas-yh6vg Would you be after 4 terms in office??
@@Atlas-yh6vg Heavy steel braces on his legs, blood pressure through the roof, dealing with a World War, dealing with Congress at the time, on the phone every day with Eleanor telling him something new to do, raising his blood pressure even more. Traveling several times around the world for conferences when he really wasn't in any physical condition to do so by 1943..... And not having a proper doctor until too late in his 3rd term... It really is a wonder that he hung on as long as he did.
What is the song used at the begining of the video please ?
And nice video btw !
Thank you for this. And shoutout Chester Wrthur.
My 5th cousin Rutherford B Hayes id love this picture on my wall! Do u have anywhere to get these colorized versions
1:36 and to think I’m a long distant relative to that man.
Cool
Man it's crazy that most of these guys were only 4 years old.
Haha
Awful joke smh..
1:48 His house is about 5 minutes from mine (Mentor Ohio) and it's so cool to see him in color
Wow😄
It's funny since I always saw these presidents in colour in my head
wut
Ulysses S Grant had the best hairstyle.
Phenomenal job! Kudos!!!
Thank you very much! :)
This is a great video. Can you please tell me the two pieces of music you used in this video? Much appreciated!!!
James Buchanan resembles Anthony Hopkins.
Yet, Anthony Hopkins starred in the Oliver Stone film "Nixon".
This is so satisfying 😂
Thanks!! :)
This makes them all look so much more human.
It looks so good
It would seem with technology that the shade of gray would be relatable to an actual color. Is there software capable of doing this and if so, how accurate is it?
Unfortunately at this current point in time technology isn't able to detect what the different brightness levels may indicate in terms of colour. In the future this may be possible with improvements in artificial intelligence but i don't see that being the case for quite a while yet. Colour images are formed of three distinct elements. These are Brightness, which will obviously tell you how light or dark an object is, then you have Hue and Saturation. The Hue will tell you what colour something should be and the saturation will tell you how intense that chosen colour should be. So both a Vivid Red and a Light Pink could have the exact same Hue, what with them both being shades of the same Red. The thing which makes them appear as different colours is the Saturation. So Pink will be the same Hue of Red, but maybe at only 50% Saturation, rather than the 100% for the intense Hue Red. Unfortunately while a Colour image contains Hue, Saturation and Brightness levels, a Black and White image only captures Brightness values. So while we can tell that certain parts are obviously lighter and darker we have absolutely no idea what colour they were or how intense it was in terms of Saturation, this is where research and logic come in (Such as grass being Green and so on) Where technology will really struggle with this is that in a Black and White image, massively different colours can look identical without the Hue and Saturation values being present. I put together an example to show the issue. In this example the Red, Green and Blue Hues are different but the Saturation and Brightness are at 100%. With the Saturation then reduced to 0%, as would be the case with a Black and White image, the three colours become identical to our, and a machines, eyes. imgur.com/a/IxmoI6x Thank you for the question, this is a really interesting topic to me and I'll probably talk more about it in a future video, so thanks for bringing it up! :)
@@JBColourisation Thanks! A very good explanation. Also, I know a lot of people have done them, but I would like to see you do some colorizations of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The colorizations I have seen are not well done and I believe, just looking at them, that some colors were way off.
Big fan of this kind of work. Really appreciate the time you have voluntarily put into these projects.
Process question: One of the problems I find with colorizing black and white photos is how dominant the black areas can be. Even after colorizing, they often still feel black and white due to the dramatic contrast. Do you often lift the opacity of some of the black areas in a picture in order to show more color and detail?
Thank you very much! The different levels of contrast between B&W Photography and Colour pictures is definitely the biggest issue to overcome. I indeed usually do what i can to lift these darker areas when there's hidden added information which can be seen by doing so. Often however extra information in the shadows was never picked up by the camera in the first place, so lightening it will just make that entire dark area a weird grey instead. In the case of pictures where that is an issue I usually try and find an alternative image of the same person or subject which is better suited for colourisation. :)
@@JBColourisation thank you for going into detail. Your John Tyler piece is a good example to me of a picture that has just the right amount of pure blacks. A lot of detail call be seen in the darker areas of the suit.
After working on restoring some pieces this week, I'm amazed at how perfect Photoshop's patch tool is for this kind of work.
at least somebody teared up during this its amazing how we get to so many of our presidents who served our nation in colour
I listened to this muted with Scot Buckley's "Phoenix" playing on another tab. Makes this already amazing video sound 10x more epic.