Morning Star wrote:
I haven't seen them recently, but some time ago you could buy colorizing kits at Michaels.
According to my brother, the method was much the same, if not identical, to the way my Dad (a professional photographer) colorized some photos.
The reason Michaels gave for these kits, was to make your photos look like photos from when? 1940's, 1950's? for your scrapbooks.
I have only one of these colorized photos my Dad did, taken in late 1953, of my sister.
My mother taught me to hand color photographs when I was a teenager in the 50s. There were two types of colors; one was watercolors which came in sheets and the other was oil colors in little tubes. The watercolors were used on snapshots (glossy paper) and the oils were used on heavy matte paper. We used cotton q-tips or homemade ones (tiny bits of cotton on toothpicks).