Hand Colouring Photographs

Hand-colouring has been used to add colour since the invention of photography. Used primarily to add colour to black and white formal portraits. It soon became part of the mainstream advertising and fashion photography of the time when it was rediscovered by a new generation of photographers, primarily in the United States.

To create a hand coloured photograph you basically take an image that is black and white or edit a coloured image to black and white and paint over the image using whatever colours you want or the appropriate colours needed before. Here are some examples of hand coloured photographs: