colorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Why did they colorize the blood on one victim’s face, but not any blood on the zombies?
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2022
Then Jackson turned to the company Stereo D to colorize the film’s centerpiece clips.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2018
Photos can also now colorize your older photos — even if they weren’t shot in color to begin with.
From The Verge ● May 8, 2018
So perhaps being able to colorize old family black and white photographs with the home computer isn’t that farfetched or far off.
From Time ● Feb. 24, 2013
But some lifeless specimens have slipped into the language, among them colorize, prioritize, and finalize, and they’re probably going to be around for a while.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
He placed two panels of 25 images each side by side, half colorized and half black and white, alluding to religious diptychs of the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
And a 1997 report from the outlet quoted a VideoScan stat indicating 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s colorized version of Shirley Temple’s “Heidi” sold 1.2 million copies versus 46,000 of its black-and-white version.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
In “Memory Song,” for instance, Wolfe hauntingly colorized with silvery percussive accompaniment, marvelously melodic clarinet and cello lines and interruptions of chirping bird song, Monk’s singing of forgetting and football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
Take a look at these colorized images of photos taken during the excavation process to see why.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“I like your room,” I said, going over to look at a colorized Frankenstein poster on the wall.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
“It’s important to note that we never permanently altered the original black and whites,” he said, adding that he never thought colorizing those old movies was wrong.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
If you’re colorizing your stucco, add some pigment to your cement paint, too.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
Stout: The poster artist has done a nice job colorizing the scene in a nostalgic, Kodachrome haze that perfectly captures the time period of the film.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020
“LOTR” filmmaker Peter Jackson works some more of his movie magic by restoring and colorizing archival footage of “the war to end all wars” in the 2018 WWI doc “They Shall Not Grow Old.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2019
It was obsessed by being besmirched and colorizing the besmirching.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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