colourizing

Painting monochrome footage

Colourizing is the process of adding colour to black-and-white images, particularly film footage.

The practice became controversial in the 1980s when studios began releasing colourized versions of classic movies: Turner's colourizing of Casablanca sparked outrage among film purists.

Also spelled colorizing.

artistic

palette

Surface for mixing pigments

shading · saturation · tonality · vividness · watercolor · acrylics · pastel · gouache · tempera · hand-coloring

techniques

chroma

Color purity measure

  • tintFaint color addition
  • shadeDarkness from blocked light
  • toneQuality of sound

hue · saturation · contrast · brightness · vibrancy · intensity · gamut · luminance · value · depth

restoration

tinting

Applying light color

archival · remastering · black-and-white · sepia · nitrate · celluloid · newsreels · vintage · fading · rejuvenation

digital

photoshop

Digitally manipulate images

keying · rotoscoping · chrominance · luminance

Opposites
color manipulation direction

colourizingdesaturating

Reducing color intensity

decolorizing · grayscaling · bleaching · desaturation · fading

preservation vs. alteration

colourizingpreserving

Protecting from deterioration

restoring · non-intervention

authenticity and originality

colourizingunmodified

Without any changes

Family

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