User:Pinkville/Hand-colouring
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Hand-colouring refers to any of a number of methods of manually adding colour to a black-and-white photograph or other image to heighten its realism. Typically, water-colours, oils and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushes. Some photographic genres, particularly landscapes and portraits, were more often hand-coloured than others, and hand-coloured photographs were popular enough that some firms specialised in producing them.