Krantzbucks pics to colorize

[UKBaseballfan]

Originally Posted by infieldfly

Used kolorize on this one. With a name like Irish, I thought the eyes should be green. I have no idea what they really were. I assumed home uniform but it would be easy enough to do away if desired (layers are your friend).

Looks good to me, not sure which of his features made him look Irish. (Update) was preparing this post as Jabez answered this question. In this context maybe an adjustment to the hair if it works.

Normally when it comes to eye color I believe the best point of reference to be contemporary baseball cards in color. Although the drawings aren't often an accurate reflection of a player's features you would expect them to get the eye color correct. Difficult to find an example of a colored baseball card drawing of Meusel.

Here is a Conlon 1924 image of Johnny Cooney with the Braves. Cooney's Major League playing career extended from 1921 to 1944. However at the end of his 10 year stretch with the Braves in 1930 he did not reappear until 1935. A perennial back-up player in those 10 years his most significant impact was on his return to the Majors commencing in 1936 with Brooklyn.

Was the Dodgers starting centre-fielder and lead-off batter in 1936 and 1937. Returning to the Braves (Bees) in 1938 he batted second occupying right field in 1938 and centre-field in 1939. In many ways 1940 was his most significant year but he was unable to crack the starting outfield of Chet Ross, Max West and Gene Moore. He finished 11th in MVP voting despite his back-up status batting .318. Restored as the Braves starting centre-fielder and lead-off batter in 1941, he batted .319 and again featured in MVP voting. Returned to Brooklyn in 1943 and shared the 1944 campaign with Brooklyn before ending his career with the Yankees.

[infieldfly]

Originally Posted by Jabez54

Actually, the opposite - because of his pale skin and red hair... chances are he had blue eye...

Here you go....

[Jabez54]

OMG... You are alright, mate!!

[infieldfly]

Originally Posted by Jabez54

OMG... You are alright, mate!!

I stand on the shoulder of giants...

[blbmab]

Originally Posted by infieldfly

Disclaimers apply:


I found this in a 1955 photopack here.


I extracted the file and did a 4x enlargement in Topaz Photo AI. I have no idea if this was originally taken from an actual photo or if it was a Photoshopped mashup but it was all I could find.

that is him thank so much, brett

[Ctrane]

Some time ago i had colorized Cooney

[infieldfly]

Originally Posted by Ctrane

Some time ago i had colorized Cooney

The full size one...went back to palette.fm for this one.

[infieldfly]

Memo Luna - 1954

It struck me as I was finishing this that I probably spent as much time doing this colorization as Luna spent on the mound in his entire MLB career...2/3 of an inning, 6 batters faced.

Do we need to get out more?

[Jabez54]

Actually a resounding "No"... I've been retired over 6 years, I really enjoyed the time of playing Games, sports, movies, series, cruising the net, etc. - even more so here with these talented modders to enhance my game... I'm at peace and quite content doing so without missing the crowd...

[Patsy Tebeau]

He was the center fielder for the Buffalo Niagaras in the 1850s

[Patsy Tebeau]

The ill-fated brother of Christy Mathewson, he was a college pitcher who signed with the Nashville Vols but never played a game for them before his tragic end.

[Patsy Tebeau]

Kolorize

[Patsy Tebeau]

Another 'gothic' individual who I am fascinated with

[Patsy Tebeau]

Kolorize

[UKBaseballfan]

Originally Posted by Ctrane

Some time ago i had colorized Cooney

Thank you both for the Cooney colorizations. Sorry I missed the previous Cooney colorization and I checked how I missed it but when I did a search on this site for Johnny Cooney the colorization did not appear. Was it not posted or maybe elsewhere?

Here is a 1924 image of Bonnie Hollingsworth. A right handed pitcher he appeared in the Majors in 4 different seasons each with a different team. Pittsburgh 1922, Washington 1923, Brooklyn 1924 and the Boston Braves in 1928. Appeared in a total of 36 games almost half with the Senators. His ERA was significantly superior in 1923 at 4.09. Career ERA was 4.91 over 117 innings plus.

[Patsy Tebeau]

Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan

Thank you both for the Cooney colorizations. Sorry I missed the previous Cooney colorization and I checked how I missed it but when I did a search on this site for Johnny Cooney the colorization did not appear. Was it not posted or maybe elsewhere?

Here is a 1924 image of Bonnie Hollingsworth. A right handed pitcher he appeared in the Majors in 4 different seasons each with a different team. Pittsburgh 1922, Washington 1923, Brooklyn 1924 and the Boston Braves in 1928. Appeared in a total of 36 games almost half with the Senators. His ERA was significantly superior in 1923 at 4.09. Career ERA was 4.91 over 117 innings plus.

Hollingsworth

[infieldfly]

Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan

Here is a 1924 image of Bonnie Hollingsworth.

Unless you have an attachment to that particular photo, I'd suggest using the one posted by rrb77 elsewhere on here. On the left is your photo upsized and enhanced. I think the eyes look "funky". The one on the right is cropped, upsized, and enhanced. I think the face looks more like the ones of him with Pittsburgh plus the pinstripes are more evident here.

[Patsy Tebeau]

If I may leave my honest opinion here, I think upscaling images can look good in some circumstances but usually for lower quality photos, I feel like they should be left alone even if they are colorized just because the AI upscale looks weird and cartoony and likely doesnt look like how they actually did in real life. For example, this low quality image of Jack Harper that Krantzbucks used upscaling on back in December

[Patsy Tebeau]

versus Harper's actual face here, as you can see the weird eye is simply because it was a low quality photo

[UKBaseballfan]

Originally Posted by infieldfly

Unless you have an attachment to that particular photo, I'd suggest using the one posted by rrb77 elsewhere on here. On the left is your photo upsized and enhanced. I think the eyes look "funky". The one on the right is cropped, upsized, and enhanced. I think the face looks more like the ones of him with Pittsburgh plus the pinstripes are more evident here.

Thank you both for your contributions. I am grateful for the first colorization but if you think the alternate image as suggested will work better I can certainly see the potential in that. I also certainly agree that upscaling does not necessarily enhance an image and the example posted is apt.

Attached is a 1924 image of George Grant with the St. Louis Browns. A right handed pitcher who made his debut in 1923 appearing in 4 games with the Browns. Appeared in 38 games spread over 3 consecutive seasons with the Browns posting an ERA in each season over 5.

Returned to the Majors in 1927 and had his most productive spell in his 3 years with Cleveland. 1928 was by far his best season posting a 10-8 record. After another 1 year absence returned in 1931 with Pittsburgh. Career ERA was 5.65 over 347 innings.