Trying to make out that postcard is pretty tough. So far I've got: "Dear [something] Goodier[?], I suppose you began to think this wasn't coming but "better late than never" what do you think? I only sent it last night and hope you like it. Do you [something]? Sincerest[?] regards from Katherine[?] always[?]. Sincerely, Wo" - and then your thumb was covering the rest of the name. It's addressed to Magdala House, Moss Lane East. A quick google says that's a street in Manchester in the UK, which would match with the postage stamp. Dunno why someone in Manchester is sending a post card to someone else in Manchester, but maybe that's a thing people did in 1905. Would explain why W expects their post card to be received the day after it was sent.
Also, I'm pretty sure the caption on the front of the post card says "This girl is at the "Royal" this year" (not as). Another quick google shows that there has been a Theatre Royal in Manchester since 1845, so the lady on the front is probably an actress who was performing there in 1905. It's possible that what I read before as "I only sent it last night" is actually "I only saw it last night", which would make sense if W saw the play the night before and decided to send the post card as a souvenir. Pretty cool little glimpse into everyday people's lives!
Can’t edit the pinned comment, but after staring at it for a bit longer, the word before Goodier is “Miss”. W writes their capital M in a strange way, but it’s the same way they write the M at the beginning of Moss Lane East. Also, they seem to be using all three options of double s, long s (written like a cursive f) and long s+normal s for double s letters. Just to be fancy, I guess
those old recolored photos have some charm to them, you should make more videos about this kit! i think it would be interesting to see you color more pictures like this
@@PurpleCows which would be interesting considering the kits would have been invented for light skin. The colours that would be suitable for that were probably more so intended for hair or other things.
I found some by looking up "Japanese hand tinted photography" or "Japanese hand colored photography", not sure if these are the ones you are referring to, but I absolutely love the colors on these. The soft color scheme, bright pastels with the sepia look so good together. Some of them even look like an overlay in photoshop, which impresses me for their age. I'm an illustrator, so I eat these color schemes up.
The retouching old photos is kinda like my traditional art style in a way. I tend to start with a simple pencil sketch, add the ink pens for lines, and use watercolors for coloring. It's fun and exciting but can be complex at times. Yet, unlike my art, the photos hold a certain charm to them.
My dad was a black and white photography hobbyist and gave me the 1980 version of these paints when I was in high school. Tinting his photos was a lot of fun!
I worked at a photography studio in the late 1960s, as a negative retouch and repair artist. My tools were a scalpel set with several differently shaped blades, tiny paint brushes of different shapes, and a palette of paint shades from black to white, and one in the sepia tones from darkest to lightest. I loved it.🖤🇨🇦
I have a collection of color photographs from 1940-1960s that my great-uncle took. It is actual colored film, not recolored or colorized, and they are crystal clear! It's absolutely crazy how clear these photos are they look like they're digital. I have a photo of my great-great-grandparents getting married in 1916 and then at their 50th wedding anniversary in 1966 and that photograph from the 60s is what a typical 60s photograph looks like, blurry with very dull colors and just really blows my mind that the ones from the 40s look that much better. I posted the album online a few times but nobody really seems to be as impressed with them as I am😅
@fancyfilly8 I'm trying to find them, the account I thought they were on was deleted somehow.😭 Im trying to see where else I uploaded them. I will give you a link as soon as i can find them. The actual pictures are at my parents house 9 hours away. 😪
We do this in my photography class! I’m still in my last year of high school and apparently it is too dangerous to have a color darkroom so we can only make darkroom prints in black and white. It is so much fun to color them in though
I am so happy that darkroom photography is still a class. We also were not allowed to process our color prints or film. The film we had to send to a regular old one hour photo on our own, and then we printed from the negatives, and there was a little pass thru from the main darkroom which had the red light bulbs to a light-tight room that was also used for loading BW film into canisters for processing, to a machine that developed the color prints for us.
It would be great if you could match these colors/consistency with modern paints and lets us know which are the closest so others could recreate the old techniques too! Love the video !
I have a vintage photo of a distant relative that was colored this way. My favorite part is that on the back the photographer listed the colors of everything, like hair: auburn, dress: blue, eyes: hazel etc. it's such a lovely little piece of history.
This is so cool! I'm learning so much from this channel about old art techniques and relate them to techniques we use today. How art techniques have evolved...it's nice to see their origins.
That’s so cool! I learn SO MUCH from your channel while being entertained, I had no idea about any of this, that’s pretty cool. Nice little history lesson❤
Most I can get is: “ Dear Lily (?) Goodier, I suppose you began to think she’s never coming, but better late than never. What do you think? I only see it less … hope you like it. Do you remember(?)? In best regards from … “😅
The swatch colours are beautiful, every one of them. I wish I had a makeup pallettte with the colous exactly like your swatch card. Makes sense given the retouching kits were used primarily for augmenting people's colouring in portrait style pictures. I cant imagine it was let to chance, i am willing to bet that the thought put in to picking out the pallette was intense for it to come out looking so perfectly pleasing and useable. Id love more historical info on how that pallette was created.
This technique is still "KINDA" used for beginners still new to digital painting. Not a great idea for professional digital artists to use this method, but for beginners, my teachers would get students to paint first in black and white. Lay down the shadows and highlights, then after that, in a new layer, overlay the chosen colours. It works for beginners to learn the fundamentals, but the final result will be decent only.
This is so cool! I knew that photos used to be manually colored, but I’ve never seen what they used. Coloring them looks like so much fun, I would love to try it!
Even though I know it’s good we have color photography for accuracy sake, I would love if this kind of photo retouching came back cuz it has so much character
Awesome to find a vintage set like this! If anyone ever wants to try it, you can order a book of Nicholson watercolor paints, which are meant specifically for coloring photos. Don't forget a 00 size brush too.
this is based on a classical painting technique known as glazing :> you can do similar effects in painting on top of grisaille (a black and white underpainting) to create beautiful translucent washes of color!
I'm an archivist in a local of a small town museum. We have a very large collection of proofs and photos from the town's photographer that passed away. What has been interesting about this collection is that he left little notes throughout his work for which colors he was going to use since he shot in black and white. And as you said, yes he was still shooting in black and white in the 50s and 60s. This is interesting to watch since I have an idea of what he was going to do with his color notes later. 😊
Believe it or not, I was still doing touch-ups like this when I worked at a professional photographer’s in the 1990s. It’s nerve-wracking when you’re working on someone’s wedding or baptism photos, but when it’s done well it’s such a joy to be able to touch up any imperfections and give people a perfect memory of their day. In school we experimented with using felt too pens on b&w photos, and how to paint and wash with them to get this kind of effect too. Obviously far less permanent than oils, but it was so much fun to do. How cool that you found an entire kit from such a long time ago!
I’ve always thought that colored photography took a while to catch on because adding the color to black and white film after developing it gives a beautiful, soft, painterly effect. I can only imagine that the similarities to portrait painting kept this technique alive and well, despite the existence of colored film. You did a beautiful job on your retouch. ☺️
My family still had pictures colored like this made in the 1980s. I didn’t realize the colors didn’t require much to cover an area properly! It's really cool!
It is sooo interesting to see simple everyday things like a handwritten postcard with a cute message from way back in the days. I love to see the little everyday simple stuff that people used to use/do. Idk why but I just love it ❤ And I really appreciate people like you who like to delve into these subjects and make content about it!
Thanks for sharing this piece of art/photography history. In my high school photography class, in the early 90s, we used Prismacolor colored pencils. Worked well.
I think we might have sprayed a fixative of some sort to get a clear texture over the glossy photo before using the colored pencils. But you can get matte photo paper so you likely don't need it if you have matte paper, but not sure. If anyone tries it, let us know!
My great grandmother had a photo of herself done in this style when she was a young woman. It's how I was first introduced to this concept. I kinda want to try something like it with my own art.
That was my grandfather's job after the war. He lived in Poland and lots of people came to him, not just to touch up photographs but to also draw in missing parts. Many people just had scraps or shreds of photographs left.
My mother was a professional photographer and on her off time she would paint in her black and white photos like this. She just loved the way it looked
We once had wax facial prosthetics used in photos so injured war vets could have a picture of themselves without a gaping hole in their face. We had silk pieces that covered blemishes. There were painters who made people look better in the paintings. We’ve basically been editing photos for like well over 100 years. Wow. It’s just more accessible now
My dad did this in the 1990s . Had some chemical that buffed the picture surface so it wasn't glossy. Then he could color pencil In the image to colorize, then soften the color to blend it. I watched sometimes.. However! I didn't know about these kits til now.
My mom was a professional photographer in the 80's, and she did a bit of photo restoration as well. One of the stories I grew up hearing was of a woman who came into her shop, she wanted an old photo copied and restored and for a hat to be removed from the man in it. Naturally my mom asked which side she wanted his hair parted on. The woman was baffled and asked, won't you know when you take his hat off??? Thats when my mom had to explain how photography worked. This was a memorable instance, but not an uncommon confusion from my mom's stories.
I have actually done this. My high school had a really great photography program. I was there right before digital photography took over, so we got to do a lot of darkroom techniques with black and white film, one of which was photo tinting markers.
I actually did this with my mother's high school photo. A copy, not the original. But i did it in subtle layers. It actually came out looking like it was taken in color. My favorite pic.
My grandpa owned his own photo studio before becoming the VP of black and white photography for Kodak, but in his studio he had my grandmother paint the photos!! I absolutely loved going through his dark room to see all the equivalent%%/_5
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Trying to make out that postcard is pretty tough. So far I've got:
"Dear [something] Goodier[?],
I suppose you began to think this wasn't coming but "better late than never" what do you think? I only sent it last night and hope you like it. Do you [something]? Sincerest[?] regards from Katherine[?] always[?].
Sincerely,
Wo" - and then your thumb was covering the rest of the name.
It's addressed to Magdala House, Moss Lane East. A quick google says that's a street in Manchester in the UK, which would match with the postage stamp. Dunno why someone in Manchester is sending a post card to someone else in Manchester, but maybe that's a thing people did in 1905. Would explain why W expects their post card to be received the day after it was sent.
Also, I'm pretty sure the caption on the front of the post card says "This girl is at the "Royal" this year" (not as). Another quick google shows that there has been a Theatre Royal in Manchester since 1845, so the lady on the front is probably an actress who was performing there in 1905.
It's possible that what I read before as "I only sent it last night" is actually "I only saw it last night", which would make sense if W saw the play the night before and decided to send the post card as a souvenir. Pretty cool little glimpse into everyday people's lives!
Can’t edit the pinned comment, but after staring at it for a bit longer, the word before Goodier is “Miss”. W writes their capital M in a strange way, but it’s the same way they write the M at the beginning of Moss Lane East. Also, they seem to be using all three options of double s, long s (written like a cursive f) and long s+normal s for double s letters. Just to be fancy, I guess
Oh, that's really interesting!
I think the name is Kayla goodier
I wouldn't say Kayla since the "L" is an "f" in the name.
those old recolored photos have some charm to them, you should make more videos about this kit! i think it would be interesting to see you color more pictures like this
Especially with dark skin!
Yeah i agree
Yesssss
@@PurpleCows which would be interesting considering the kits would have been invented for light skin. The colours that would be suitable for that were probably more so intended for hair or other things.
Colorizing old photos is such a unique art form. So much history and nostalgia in those photos.
Oh my lord I'm your first reply on this channel! ❤
why are you on the vintage side of yt too 😭
why are you everywhere its making me insane. 😭
@chicken I didn't expect you to be here. lol
@@CatariGMat we all didnt 😭
The Japenese colored photos are super cool they used a different technique and it looked super realistic
I found some by looking up "Japanese hand tinted photography" or "Japanese hand colored photography", not sure if these are the ones you are referring to, but I absolutely love the colors on these. The soft color scheme, bright pastels with the sepia look so good together. Some of them even look like an overlay in photoshop, which impresses me for their age. I'm an illustrator, so I eat these color schemes up.
I love that you're keeping all of these old techniques alive
Even the capcut screen
The retouching old photos is kinda like my traditional art style in a way. I tend to start with a simple pencil sketch, add the ink pens for lines, and use watercolors for coloring. It's fun and exciting but can be complex at times. Yet, unlike my art, the photos hold a certain charm to them.
I went to your channel hoping to see some of your art. You should post videos about your watercolours. I'd love to see them.
@@naly202 really?😯
Yes you should!
@Snistal I have been thinking about it.🤔 anyone else wanna see me make a comeback?
@@sapphirejade5029Hell yeah
My dad was a black and white photography hobbyist and gave me the 1980 version of these paints when I was in high school. Tinting his photos was a lot of fun!
My grandmother was a photography tinter in the 1920’s-50’s, I always wondered about supplies ❤
I worked at a photography studio in the late 1960s, as a negative retouch and repair artist. My tools were a scalpel set with several differently shaped blades, tiny paint brushes of different shapes, and a palette of paint shades from black to white, and one in the sepia tones from darkest to lightest. I loved it.🖤🇨🇦
I have a collection of color photographs from 1940-1960s that my great-uncle took. It is actual colored film, not recolored or colorized, and they are crystal clear! It's absolutely crazy how clear these photos are they look like they're digital.
I have a photo of my great-great-grandparents getting married in 1916 and then at their 50th wedding anniversary in 1966 and that photograph from the 60s is what a typical 60s photograph looks like, blurry with very dull colors and just really blows my mind that the ones from the 40s look that much better.
I posted the album online a few times but nobody really seems to be as impressed with them as I am😅
Wow! Sounds amazing!!
Would you be willing to share them again? I'd love to see them! I am a costume designer and very interested in historical research.
@fancyfilly8 I'm trying to find them, the account I thought they were on was deleted somehow.😭 Im trying to see where else I uploaded them. I will give you a link as soon as i can find them. The actual pictures are at my parents house 9 hours away. 😪
@@fancyfilly8 they seem to be gone. I'll keep trying.
I'm just here for if you find them
That explains why a lot of old colored photos have a washed-out yet vibrant painted look
We do this in my photography class! I’m still in my last year of high school and apparently it is too dangerous to have a color darkroom so we can only make darkroom prints in black and white. It is so much fun to color them in though
My high school did that too!
I am so happy that darkroom photography is still a class. We also were not allowed to process our color prints or film. The film we had to send to a regular old one hour photo on our own, and then we printed from the negatives, and there was a little pass thru from the main darkroom which had the red light bulbs to a light-tight room that was also used for loading BW film into canisters for processing, to a machine that developed the color prints for us.
The photos where only the clothing is brightly coloured in is honestly such a look
My great grandmother used to do this! Thank you for sharing the progress and bringing back a fond memory ⚘
It actually works incredibly well! The fact that the values are not messed up omg 😱😍
THAT'S why some old photos look like that???!!! i love this channel so much
Coloring old photos is so fascinating to me, it’s just so neat to watch. It’s like watching history in reverse.
I still can't get over your eyes. The vermillion looks way different than what I expected.
DID I HEAR VERMILLION!
I think these photos look so pretty with the added colors. It has such a vibe to it that other forms of photography don't have.
I was waiting for you to add blush and lip color but still cool
she did
@@Arctic_and_The_F0Xoh well I guess she had made it more vibrant then since it’s barely noticeable not to be a negative Nancy
Yes, yes, I would. I admire the vintage way to photo edit. Color photography in the old days always looks so pleasing in some way.
I remember, in our photography class, we developed photos and used chalk pastels to color one or two things on a black and white photo.
It would be great if you could match these colors/consistency with modern paints and lets us know which are the closest so others could recreate the old techniques too! Love the video !
I think you made that look way easier than it actually is
You really brought her to life :)
Almost to a point where it's scary
The capcut logo at the end😭
The capcut outro
why wasn't it removed 😭
Very cool. Like time travel in a fun way. The paints have aged well. How long can they last?
I have a vintage photo of a distant relative that was colored this way. My favorite part is that on the back the photographer listed the colors of everything, like hair: auburn, dress: blue, eyes: hazel etc. it's such a lovely little piece of history.
I have two retouched colored photos of ancestors of mine.
This is so cool! I'm learning so much from this channel about old art techniques and relate them to techniques we use today. How art techniques have evolved...it's nice to see their origins.
Omg that’s so easy and the results are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
That’s so cool! I learn SO MUCH from your channel while being entertained, I had no idea about any of this, that’s pretty cool. Nice little history lesson❤
I appreciate you putting the before and after together
AND leaving them Both on the screen long enough to look at
Thank you!😊
This is so calming somehow like I could jus keep watching videos of you adding in color to old photos
Most I can get is:
“ Dear Lily (?) Goodier,
I suppose you began to think she’s never coming, but better late than never. What do you think? I only see it less … hope you like it. Do you remember(?)? In best regards from … “😅
My grandmother did this in the 40s! There was a photo of herself that she colored as her demo to get the job that I LOVED as a kid
It felt like the photo got life in it when you painted it. It makes so much difference when you add a lil bit colour
This is why I love history, history brings some absolutely beautiful things
i did this in my photography class! it was so cool to see the results and experiment with the oil paints!
In a heartbeat, yes I would. IG and digital stuff just isn't the same as an actual photograph.
The swatch colours are beautiful, every one of them. I wish I had a makeup pallettte with the colous exactly like your swatch card. Makes sense given the retouching kits were used primarily for augmenting people's colouring in portrait style pictures. I cant imagine it was let to chance, i am willing to bet that the thought put in to picking out the pallette was intense for it to come out looking so perfectly pleasing and useable. Id love more historical info on how that pallette was created.
That looks really cool. But I didn't think they would add in false colours - it's like colouring in a photograph.
Yikes you made me feel old!! I remember my neighbor doing this . I haven't thought about it in decades ❤
This technique is still "KINDA" used for beginners still new to digital painting. Not a great idea for professional digital artists to use this method, but for beginners, my teachers would get students to paint first in black and white. Lay down the shadows and highlights, then after that, in a new layer, overlay the chosen colours. It works for beginners to learn the fundamentals, but the final result will be decent only.
My grandparents' wedding photos were hand tinted. Definitely common in the first half of the 20th century. Thanks for showing us how it was done!
I think I would try it, but not if the paints are toxic, I would get them tested first as old as they are!
I tried it once in fine art photography, it's so much fun❤
oh i love how old retouched pictures look✨
Pretty cool 😎
It's giving me anxiety that you painted the blue colour out of borders.
It looks soo good!!
This is so cool! I knew that photos used to be manually colored, but I’ve never seen what they used. Coloring them looks like so much fun, I would love to try it!
Even though I know it’s good we have color photography for accuracy sake, I would love if this kind of photo retouching came back cuz it has so much character
Awesome to find a vintage set like this! If anyone ever wants to try it, you can order a book of Nicholson watercolor paints, which are meant specifically for coloring photos. Don't forget a 00 size brush too.
Thats so whimsical 🫠🦋🖼
this is based on a classical painting technique known as glazing :> you can do similar effects in painting on top of grisaille (a black and white underpainting) to create beautiful translucent washes of color!
A minored in photography in my twenties and this was part of the learning experience I found it to be really fascinating
I love this idea, I bet they enjoyed coloring their photos
I'm an archivist in a local of a small town museum. We have a very large collection of proofs and photos from the town's photographer that passed away. What has been interesting about this collection is that he left little notes throughout his work for which colors he was going to use since he shot in black and white. And as you said, yes he was still shooting in black and white in the 50s and 60s. This is interesting to watch since I have an idea of what he was going to do with his color notes later. 😊
Believe it or not, I was still doing touch-ups like this when I worked at a professional photographer’s in the 1990s. It’s nerve-wracking when you’re working on someone’s wedding or baptism photos, but when it’s done well it’s such a joy to be able to touch up any imperfections and give people a perfect memory of their day.
In school we experimented with using felt too pens on b&w photos, and how to paint and wash with them to get this kind of effect too. Obviously far less permanent than oils, but it was so much fun to do.
How cool that you found an entire kit from such a long time ago!
Tbh I liked the photo at the end better before it was colored in but it's still cool.
I’ve always thought that colored photography took a while to catch on because adding the color to black and white film after developing it gives a beautiful, soft, painterly effect. I can only imagine that the similarities to portrait painting kept this technique alive and well, despite the existence of colored film.
You did a beautiful job on your retouch. ☺️
Wow, cool vintage work idea!
I like the old photos as they are but using an old kit on old photos sounds fun! I don’t think I could change more than one tho :’)
My grandparents have photos that look like this and I always wondered! Super cool.
My family still had pictures colored like this made in the 1980s. I didn’t realize the colors didn’t require much to cover an area properly! It's really cool!
It is sooo interesting to see simple everyday things like a handwritten postcard with a cute message from way back in the days. I love to see the little everyday simple stuff that people used to use/do. Idk why but I just love it ❤
And I really appreciate people like you who like to delve into these subjects and make content about it!
Thanks for sharing this piece of art/photography history. In my high school photography class, in the early 90s, we used Prismacolor colored pencils. Worked well.
I think we might have sprayed a fixative of some sort to get a clear texture over the glossy photo before using the colored pencils. But you can get matte photo paper so you likely don't need it if you have matte paper, but not sure. If anyone tries it, let us know!
idk why i believed everyone used to have beautiful handwritings back then
This is my favorite art I love to do. As a photographer I love black & white the most. One reason is to add color where I want too.
I AM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL! Wow, you’re like my twin. 😂❤
This was my grandma’s job when she was young!! So cool to see what the actual process looks like.
I'm so grateful I'm in a generation when I was able to develop and process black and white film in high-school
This is so cool!! I was surprised it was that easy once you applied the colors!! ❤ thank you for sharing.
We did that once in photography when i was in highschool! It was really fun and i wish we had more time in that class
beautiful, reminds me of the color version of that really old movie A Trip To The Moon - i believe they did this process to each frame
Fun stuff! Used to do it with special markers in photography class in the 90s.
That's so cool and really pretty.😊
Stay safe and stay awesome 💜
My great grandmother had a photo of herself done in this style when she was a young woman. It's how I was first introduced to this concept. I kinda want to try something like it with my own art.
That was my grandfather's job after the war. He lived in Poland and lots of people came to him, not just to touch up photographs but to also draw in missing parts. Many people just had scraps or shreds of photographs left.
My mother was a professional photographer and on her off time she would paint in her black and white photos like this. She just loved the way it looked
the colour that's just named 'flesh' is so ominous actually
I’ve got family photo shoots that were still done like this in 1970!
wait i love this!!! i really wish this was an easy option to do to your own photographs nowadays 😭
This is so fascinating. I love art and learning about vintage techniques. What a cool find!
We once had wax facial prosthetics used in photos so injured war vets could have a picture of themselves without a gaping hole in their face. We had silk pieces that covered blemishes. There were painters who made people look better in the paintings. We’ve basically been editing photos for like well over 100 years. Wow. It’s just more accessible now
My dad did this in the 1990s . Had some chemical that buffed the picture surface so it wasn't glossy. Then he could color pencil In the image to colorize, then soften the color to blend it.
I watched sometimes..
However! I didn't know about these kits til now.
My mom was a professional photographer in the 80's, and she did a bit of photo restoration as well. One of the stories I grew up hearing was of a woman who came into her shop, she wanted an old photo copied and restored and for a hat to be removed from the man in it. Naturally my mom asked which side she wanted his hair parted on. The woman was baffled and asked, won't you know when you take his hat off??? Thats when my mom had to explain how photography worked. This was a memorable instance, but not an uncommon confusion from my mom's stories.
That's so cool! I love how it looks
This is so interesting… I’ve seen the effect before but didn’t know the process. Thanks for sharing. ✨💕
I'd love to try that. It looks really fun, and kinda soothing/relaxing in a way
Interested to see someone try to paint with these colours
I have actually done this. My high school had a really great photography program. I was there right before digital photography took over, so we got to do a lot of darkroom techniques with black and white film, one of which was photo tinting markers.
It has such an interesting color feel to it! It looks a lot like when you try to color a grayscale image with a multiply layer in digital art
I actually did this with my mother's high school photo. A copy, not the original. But i did it in subtle layers. It actually came out looking like it was taken in color. My favorite pic.
My grandpa owned his own photo studio before becoming the VP of black and white photography for Kodak, but in his studio he had my grandmother paint the photos!! I absolutely loved going through his dark room to see all the equivalent%%/_5
My grandmother's photo was retouched like that! I thought it was adorable
I remember doing this to my black and white pics in the 2000s in photo shop.
SO FUN
This is so gorgeous and unique. It reminds me a bit of watercolors
I just love it when they put the captions right under the video caption 😐