How do you bring back color from black and white images and videos?
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The artists that add colour often get it wrong. We do look back to the past and, as all we have seen is black and white photographs and faded paintings, we assume without thinking that the colours would have been muted. And so the colourists choose from a limited pallet, favouring browns and other muted, unsaturated colours.
This is incorrect. The past was a brilliant, colourful place. Early photographers experimented with colour photography, taking multiple pictures through different filters, and they captured brilliant colours. And the coloured objects that survive without fading, like ceramics and glass, are brilliantly coloured. So when recolouring a photograph, we should choose bright, exciting colours. And similarly, when you see a recoloured photograph, know that the colours you are seeing are almost certainly wrong.
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