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
When combined with Adobe’s existing colorize filter for adding color to black-and-white photos, the two filters can quickly bring an old photo to life, even if the end result looks a bit cartoony.
From The Verge ● Jun. 14, 2022
Then Jackson turned to the company Stereo D to colorize the film’s centerpiece clips.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2018
Based on that, the computer could quickly colorize a black and white photograph with essentially true color.
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
Technology has evolved to a point where recently colorized films look, if not ideal, then at least passable on high-definition televisions.
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
Flawlessly executed, the pictures employ both natural light — including the yellow pinpricks of fireflies — and colorized elemental forms to conjure a beguilingly multilayered universe.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 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
Earlier this year, Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” immersed audiences in the events of World War I by digitally restoring and colorizing original footage from the conflict.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
“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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