Before color film, hand-tinting was a specialist task. Painters would painstakingly add splashes of color to prints, or – in the case of moving images – directly onto the roll of film using tiny brushes. These days, we can add color to our old photos by using a simple Photoshop technique. The Colorize filter can do much of the work for us. As one of the recently introduced Neural Filters, it uses artificial intelligence to recognise people and objects in a photo, then colors them accordingly.
Like other automated tools in Photoshop, Colorize works brilliantly on some photos, and less so on others. But even if the results aren’t perfect, the filter gives you a solid starting point for more manual edits. As well as fine-tuning the application of color…
