Hand-colouring refers to any method of manually adding colour to a black-and-whitephotograph, generally either to heighten the realism of the photograph or for artistic purposes. Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting.
Typically, watercolours, oils, crayons or pastels, and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using-brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushes. Hand-coloured photographs were most popular in the mid- to late-19th century before the invention of colour photography and some firms specialized in producing hand-coloured photographs.
This all came from the fact that in the olden times when colour pictures didn't exist they made there own way to make the images colourful. They would print the photo they wanted in black and white and they paint over it using different colours to turn the image into a coloured photo.
THE TASK:
Our task was to create our own hand painted image. To do this we had to go out and take a full length photo of someone with an interesting background. We then had to download this photo and turn it into black and white using photoshop - The photo was then printed out A4 size and we where then able to hand paint our photo! We were asked to make it very colourful and exciting. Below are the images from start to end - My colour image - Black and white - Hand painted:
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