Part two: Huge retro 'photo' with five residents

Now, as promised, I present the biggest project I've ever done, in terms of how many elements it contains.

For quite some time, I have sought older photographs that were taken decades ago, to represent the history and heritage carried over to modern times by the Barefoot Family Farm.  About a week ago, as I updated an extended pedigree of the real-life descendants of Miles Barefoot and his son Miles "Pink" (who I have also adopted as the family patriarch of my 13 characters),  I came across a photo showing 36 people posing outside a building.  I found it on the Find A Grave page of Ida Barefoot, who was one of them.

I then got the idea to do two things: 1) Colorize the picture; 2) Somehow work some of "the 13" into my version.

Originally, I wanted to place some of their faces into the colorized version, but I eventually figured it would be better to present them as younger versions of themselves instead.  And since Popeye, his wife Annie, and their children Ralph, Harvey, and Hambone are the oldest residents in the collective sense, that's who I chose to be featured.

All the colorization took place using the "colorize" feature (of course) of the hue and saturation layer.  The thing is, it took over 50 such adjustments to get it to look how I wanted it.  The trickiest part was the skin color; if I did it wrong, some of them would have had overly-reddish skin and look more Native American than Caucasian.

After looking at the faces, I found the best portrayals of the quintet in their younger days.  Here, Alonzo and Annie are recently married and in their 20s; as for the kids, Ralph is 8 years old, Harvey is 6, and Reba Pearl is 3.

Here is the before:

Now, here is the after, with the family farm residents' names pointed out via caption:

Also of note in the "after" is that the person sitting down is Noah Gideon a/k/a "Gid", Popeye's father and the nearest direct relative to everyone at the Barefoot Family Farm (except for Bryson, who has a half-brother relationship through Brenda, who is the wife of one of Gid's grandsons). 

The setting of my new version is Unity Presbyterian Church, which was where most family members who lived in Meadow went until Long Branch Disciple Church on Barefoot Road became available; Ralph, of course, is now the minister at Long Branch.  Gid was the pastor at the time.  To Gid's left and at an angle slightly is his wife Velma, and on the ground to his immediate left is Noah, who went on to teach Belinda, Bryson, and others in the extended family's one-room schoolhouse on Meadowbrook Road.