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Colouring Black & White Photographs

These days  we can very easily and cheap take plenty of photographs any time and anywhere with small digital cameras, very often built-in mobile phones. All of those photographs are in colour now. But before digital age people have used the cameras with old-fashioned films for more 100 years and they took  the most of them in black and white because they were simpler and cheaper to produce.

A lot of people demanded to see the photographs in full colour and they started to colourize the black and white photos. They understood that image in full colours can impress people much more giving them amazing experience as they can spot more details in them and much deeper. Colourizing black and white photos has been realized since the beginning of photographs. At the beginning of 20th century famous Georges Melies coloured by hand film “Trip to the Moon”. To give an idea how hard that work was let me do some calculations here. This film was pretty short, just about 15 min long. As you know, 15 min has 900 sec and for shooting speed 18 frames per second  this film has 16200 frames. Every single frame was probably coloured by hand so you can see how long could it take and many people have been involved in doing that. Despite that hard work Georges Melies wanted to make this film coloured.

Photo colouring is not so easy process and it requires some artistic skills of assigning appropriate colour for each element of the photo.
Below there are examples of our work in colouring black and white photographs. We will gradually add some more.

The first photograph has been coloured for Mrs Shay from Dublin. Next photograph has been restored and coloured for Mrs Alicia from London.
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Old photo before colouring
Original photograph of Mrs Alicia's grandparents
Photo after colouring with a new background
Restored and coloured photograph
Black & White before photo colouring
Old original family photograph
Coloured Photo after photo colouring
After photo colourization
B&W Photo before photo colouring
My family photo from1961
Colourised Photo after photo colouring
This photo after colourization
B&W Photo before photo colouring
My mother with me in 1956
Old Photo after photo colouring
This photograph after colourization
B&W Photo before photo colouring
My neighbour friends in front of my childhood home in 1978
Colourised Photo after photo colouring
Old photograph after colourization
B&W Photo before photo colouring
I was skating on the frozen river in 1978
Coloured Photo after photo colouring
This old photo has been sharpened and colourized effectively
My Friend's Old Photo before photo colouring
My good friend from previous job, Keith at his youth playing his guitar
My Friend's Photo after photo colouring
This photograph after photo colouring

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