ABSTRACT
Hand colouring was the only way to get a coloured image up until the advent of cheap colour materials in the 1950s. Working with scanned black-and-white images the readers can reintroduce colour easily on the computer. Photoshop’s History brush lets they paint colour back into a digital black-and-white that originated from a colour file. A pressure-sensitive pen and graphics tablet is far easier to use for hand colouring than a mouse. The readers can use a range of colouring media from watercolour pencils, dye-based retouching pens, to pastels and oils. The image appearance will not change but the readers now have a colour space into which to add their colours. Alternatively, they could modify the colours – make them pastel shades, for instance – take a Photoshop Snapshot and use that as a source for the History brush.
