Photo Restoration | I Restored 26 Presidents With Photoshop, Here's Why!

In this video explain why and how I restored 26 of the 45 U.S Presidents in Photoshop. I talk about both my creative and technical processes and my wider thoughts on making history more accessible.

I had previously decided to both restore and color a Photograph of Abraham Lincoln. After it was unusually successful online I decided to rather ambitiously color every single U.S president who only existed in Black and White Photography.

I already made a video featuring every completed picture:
https://youtu.be/pnwIROaSvp4

In this video I show the working processes involved with a representative selection of the pictures I worked on. Along with Lincoln I also talk about John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft,

Some are daguerreotypes, some are glass negatives and some are regular photographic prints but all of them received the same care and attention.

Along with explaining my Photoshop process, a lot of this video is actually more about the creative side of colorization. I, along with many in the community, receive so many comments thanking us for making these historical pictures, and the people within them, feel alive again. So a lot of this video is talking about my thoughts on making history more easily relatable and allowing people to connect with these people who have now become almost more myth than real life people of history.

History Colored Interview
https://historycolored.com/articles/4565/photographs-of-every-us-president-in-color/

https://www.youtube.com/historycolored

Restoration Tutorial
https://youtu.be/FmtQJHJ17xs

Colorization Tutorial
https://youtu.be/SKgEP-TlAm0

Civil War Contraband
https://youtu.be/iJrzjqDFXoI

WW1 Hospital
https://youtu.be/LEb4ngirUuQ

Medieval Jester
https://youtu.be/xBYCEOg25uw

Bike Owner
https://youtu.be/TQhSfnCvgp0

IMAGE SOURCES
(I only have 5000 characters, so full credits, catalog numbers, and Image locations in video credits!)

George Washington
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2001.13?destination=portraits

John Adams
https://images.nga.gov/en/search/do_quick_search.html?q=
~149230&launchZoom=149230230,145713,162784,149572&basket_item_id=undefined




Thomas Jefferson
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.99.66

James Madison
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.68.50



James Monroe
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.70.59

John Quincy Adams
https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2017.110

Andrew Jackson
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008680704/
htps://www.loc.gov/item/2004664005/
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3g01807/

Martin Van Buren
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/190021680

James K. Polk
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g06742/

Zachary Taylor
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/268331




Millard Fillmore
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017896626/

James Buchanan
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528303.jpg




Abraham Lincoln
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.19469/

Ulysses S. Grant
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.00971/
Reproduction Number

Rutherford B. Hayes
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.03606/


William McKinley
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016689259/




Theodore Roosevelt
https://www.loc.gov/item/2002718198/

William Howard Taft
https://www.loc.gov/resource/hec.15145/

Calvin Coolidge
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.31489/

Gerald Ford
(NAID) 530680
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerald_Ford_-_NARA_-_530680.jpg

Civil War Contraband
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpb.01005/

Bike Owner, Jester, WW1 hospital and HDR Images from my own collection.

Music Sourced from Youtube Audio Library
Dream Escape - The Tides





Peaceful Mind - Astron
Spenta Mainyu - Jesse Gallagher
Fresh Fallen Snow - Chris Haugen

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