Hand-colouring refers to any method of manually adding colour to a monochrome photograph, generally either to heighten the realism of the image or for artistic purposes. Hand-colouring is also known a
A hand-coloured daguerreotype by J. Garnier, c. 1850
Original monochrome photo
Hand-coloured version
A typical ad for a photographic colourist, Seattle, 1917
Film colorization
Videos
Film colorization is any process that adds color to black-and-white, sepia, or other monochrome moving-picture images. It may be done as a special effect, to "modernize" black-and-white films, or to r
Hand-colouring of photographs
…was added to the back and this could also be coloured by hand. Both pieces of glass were bound together creating a detailed, albeit fragile, image. Film colorization List of early color feature films Film tinting…
Color applied to the 1925 film Lights of Old Broadway through the Handschiegl process
Night of the Living Dead, colorized in 1986...
...and 2004.