David Barr Kirtley

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My Colorized Version of Nick Greenwood’s “Red Road” Illustration

June 29, 2008 by David Barr Kirtley 1 Comment

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:

David Barr Kirtley art illustration red road nick greenwood orson scott card intergalactic medicine show

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  1. Red Road at Tobias Buckell Online says:
    July 8, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    […] 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. […]

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David Barr Kirtley

David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, for which he’s interviewed over four hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories.
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