For what I know, there are not real color photos about the Great Patrioctic War of Soviet sources; eventually, one can find few color photos of German sources, or of their allies. Drawing color profiles, I feel their absence very much; as a sort of compensation, I have tried to make what I would like to find. All the photos shown here are colorized versions of old grayscale photos from many sources. The choice of colors should be close to real ones, but misinterpretations are always possible. The colorization work has been done with Adobe Photoshop, respecting the original luminosity of each pixel, and acting on the hue and saturation values only. The work was made combining these techniques: * colorization either with brush/options: color only, or with selection of zones by paths and image/adjust/hue,saturation/colorize; * colorization either on the base layer or on a overimposed layer, option color only (this allows to hide the color layer and to see the original bw photo when desired; it is the ideal option using the colorization to reconstruct a camouflage); * the base colour was slightly changed according to lightening conditions; usually lightened surface were turned to yellow or orange, and shadow surfaces to blue; this could be made both by hand or with the image/adjust/ color balance; * to slightly change the base color, one can use brush with low opacity value; * multilayer files are saved as .PSD files; when the image is end, a version of it is flattened on one layer, reduced in resolution and saved as .jpg file.
