Just for fun I decided to see if I could colorize Nick Greenwood’s spectacular illustration for my short story “Red Road.” I’d never done this before, and wasn’t even sure I’d be able to. I futzed around a bit with Paint Shop Pro, and quickly discovered that the lasso + adjust RGB functions make it surprisingly easy to colorize a black & white image, and that this renders surprisingly good results. Here’s how it’s turning out so far:
[…] I’m digging on the art to my friend David Kirtley’s story in IGMS called Red Road (about talking animals, yay!). He has a colorized version on his website here. […]