Book Review - The Colorizing Pro

Hi Melvin,

I very much enjoyed your book. It's always a pleasure to see how other people do it, and I found your guide very comprehensive; from the theoretical underpinnings of Hale's Model of Visual Cognition to your specific Photoshop techniques – very different from mine but also effective. There's some good work in there, too: Shanghai Low, The Fifteen Cent Burger Bar, Umbrellas on the Beach, The Teepees and Big Rock Beach Cafe Revisited are fascinating glimpses into 20th century America, and something about your vibrant renditions reminds me of contemporaneous colour film stocks of the era.

Thanks once again for reaching out and sending me a copy of your book. 

Best wishes,

Jordan

Jordan J. Lloyd is a British author and visual historian bringing hidden stories from history to life for The Times, TIME LIFE, NPR, the Imperial War Museums, HISTORY, and the AARP. His work has featured on the front covers of National Geographic History, HISTORY Magazine, LIFE Magazine and People Magazine specials, and he was featured in the TIME LIFE book 'The Civil War in 500 Photographs'. His work also features as the front cover to the Manic Street Preachers album 'Resistance is Futile' (Columbia Records, 2018).

Lloyd's first published book of colourised historic photos, 'The Paper Time Machine: Colouring the Past' (Unbound, 2017), has sold well in the UK and abroad under the name History as they Saw It: Iconic Moments from the Past in Color (Chronicle Books, 2018), a Czech language edition Historie v barvě (Extra Publishing, 2019), and most recently a German language edition 'Zeitreise: Bedeutende Momente der Geschichte in Farbe neu erleben 1839 bis 1949' (Frederking & Thaler, 2019).