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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
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In my opinion their efforts should have been rewarded by their colorizations being included in the facepack.
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Perhaps you can explain why it is not their omission from the facepack that you are criticising. If the colorizers take the time and effort to take the time and effort to colorize a black and white image then should not their efforts be rewarded in just the manner you express.
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This is something I have advocated for many years, though in a slightly different manner than UK suggests. The Facepack is used by many people with many different opinions about what makes a photo "best." There are those who prefer action photos, those who would rather have a bust-style portrait and those who want closely-cropped face shots. Many prefer to have photos of players in a different uniform based on their various major league teams. Some prefer B&W, others colorization. In assembling the Facepack I try to take each of these interests into account, weighted, perhaps too heavily, by my own identification-centric interests: crisply-focused, forward-facing portraits with both ears and any other distinct features visible.
Many users here have created their own photo packs (Pegasus27, jwisenberg, okcochise, WrightWing and Cheech411 just to name a few) but as far as I know, nobody has undertaken the project to produce a fully-colorized pack.
Unfortunately I have too much on my plate to add another project and when I have mentioned this apparent omission in the past I have not found anyone willing or able to take it on. As UK mentioned it would be a good way to spread the work of the colorization artists to a broader audience and provide an excellent alternative for those Facepack users who prefer colorized images over B&W. I'll throw the invitation out there again: is anyone willing to create and manage a colorized photo pack? The project would likely include collecting the colorized images already available, choosing the best (by the pack manager's own standard) available colorization for each player and soliciting colorization artists to fill in the missing players.
If someone here would like to take on this project, the Facepack is a good starter both in format and content. Using that as a starting point, as Cheech did with
his photo pack, colorized photos could be easily inserted in the place of B&W images. I am willing to provide a database that can be used to track which players are already colorized and which remain B&W. UK has shown that there are already many images available to launch the pack. Perhaps even an era-specific pack such as the one okcochise has put together for the
1950s-70s would be a good start. Going that route, the Conlon era (by Sal1199, among others) and War Years (by ortforshort, also among others) are already well-covered and either would seem to be a natural fit.
Any takers?