Artist Brings Old Black And White Photos Back To Life By Colorizing Them, Which Really Changes Everything

A colorful distant past.

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• Published in Interesting
• August 1, 2018

Photoshop can be used by pretty much anyone, but it takes a real professional to create something truly amazing with that great tool. Marina Amaral is a professional colorist from Brazil, whose job doesn't just consist of clicking-and-dragging, has been obsessed with history since forever and before colorizing any picture, she does some extensive research to make sure everything is accurate and as realistic as possible.

Amaral has been playing with Photoshop since she was around ten. She was instantly inspired to start colorizing photos in 2015 after she was in a history forum on the internet and landed on a couple of colorized photos of World War I. Right after that, she immediately started restoring and colorizing photos that were initially black and white. Her great work gives people access to a more accurate version of the past, exactly how it used to be:

Check out her wonderful work down below:

Ruby Bridges Being Escorted By US Marshals To Attend An All-White School, 1960

Monet

Cree Man, Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1903

Marie Sklodowska Curie

Polish Photographer Tries To Alter Reality by Using His Own Background Masking Poland's World War II Ruins In Warsaw, November 1946

Lewis Powell. Who Conspired With John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's Assassin

Queen Elizabeth II

Banana Docks, New York. CA 1890 – 1910

Four Female Pilots Photographed While Leaving Their Ship, Pistol Packin' Mama, At The Four Engine School At Lockbourne AAF, 1944

Finnish Sniper Simo Häyhä, White Death

Hermann Göring Sits In The Dock At The Nuremberg Trial, 1946

Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on June 2nd, 1953

Roza Shanina, A 19-Year-Old Russian WWII Sniper With 59 Confirmed Kills

They Only Children To Be Rescued From The Titanic Without A Parent Or Guardian, Orphans, Brothers Michel And Edmond Navratil, 1912.

Eunice Hancock, A 21-Year-Old Woman, Operating A Compressed-Air Grinder In A Midwest Aircraft Plant During World War II. August 1942

Young Kenyan Woman Holding A Dik-Dik, Mombasa, 1909

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