photo colourisation
If your photos pre date the 1930's they will invariably have a mono tone and rarely have any printing methods which form photo colourisation, although colour images have been around since Victorian times colour film didn't evolve until the early 1930s and even then black and white photographs were still popular up to the 1960's.
There are two ways to enhance you photos, one is by giving it the old vintage look by applying a sepia tint or alternatively some natural colours.... varying tones and shades can bring your pictures back to life. I've seen a numerous websites that claim to add photo colourisation your images using just a few clicks, and they'll charge you a considerable sum for doing it. Results are not always accurate either.
Photo colourisation requires diligent and careful expertise to achieve quality results
Colourisation from £15.00
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Silksworth Row, Sunderland 1970's
Flower sellers in Victorian London
This Sepia image is ok it might benefit from cropping, but doing so shortened the lamp post consequently giving a compressed look
A square crop reduced the height of the image and looked odd. Colourising the photo by AI left many elements the original sepia colour (eg.) the baskets and the flowers.... this is why AI is not accurate and inconsistent. Hand coloured, the image looks fine.
