colourising

Painting monochrome footage

Colourising is the British spelling of colorising—adding colour to black-and-white photographs or film footage through digital or manual techniques.

The process transforms monochrome images into colour versions: The documentary featured colourised footage from World War I.

Also spelled colorizing/colourizing.

artistic

palette

Surface for mixing pigments

toning · hues · saturation · vibrancy · monochrome · sepia · watercolour · gouache · pastel · expressionism

restoration

tinting

Applying light color

  • hueColor's specific character
  • saturationState of complete permeation
  • toneQuality of sound

sepia · monochrome · archival · preservation · remastering · historical · black-and-white · fading · deterioration · reconstruction

digital

saturation

State of complete permeation

chroma · tint · tone · gradation · palette · gamma · luminance · intensity · value · curves

visualization

palette

Surface for mixing pigments

gradation · rendering · graphics · mapping · highlighting · segmentation · contrast · differentiation · legend · scale

Opposites
color saturation/presence

colourisingdesaturating

Reducing color intensity

greyscaling · fading · bleaching · desaturation

preservation vs. alteration

colourisingpreserving

Protecting from deterioration

restoring

Family

colour, coloured, colouring, discoloration, colorize, colourise, discolourations, colorization, colourised

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