Elvis publicity photo colorized

As a collector, I from time to time venture off into other aspects of collecting. There is a great photograph of Elvis Presley in uniform. It is being auctioned as a vintage 7×9 black and white matte publicity photo. There is a date stamp on the reverse side dated June 29, 1960. On the front is stamped “this proof is unretouched”. It is in fine condition.

I have compared it too images on the G.I. Blues soundtrack. Judging from the markings on this uniform, this is most likely a publicity photo for the G.I. Blues soundtrack.

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eBay: 330239758770
Date: June 6, 2008
Price: $50.00

I took a copy of this image and ran it through paint.NET to remove the background image and fade a color into the background. paint.NET is FREEWARE.

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I found this great program called Recolored. They make the following claim: “Recolored makes it easy for anyone to add color to black and white photos. There is no need to struggle with layers or complicated settings — everything is accomplished with a few brush strokes. The software performs the otherwise difficult and time consuming task of coloring the image and creating smooth transitions between different colored objects.”

I am not a graphics artist, however, this program is quite simple to use. In a matter of a half an hour with tweaking, I successfully colorized the black and white photo from the first image. This utility is being offered for $29.00 but certainly looks to be worth it.

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