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
“The budget we had was to colorize about 30 to 40 minutes of film.”
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
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
But then I found a colorized obscure album cover of Bob in the shirt, and it was green polka dot, which even made it, I think, less attractive to Jim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Take a look at these colorized images of photos taken during the excavation process to see why.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 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
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
The movie, which was a box office hit with nearly $20 million worldwide, found Jackson colorizing and restoring old World War I footage.
From Salon ● May 15, 2019
It was obsessed by being besmirched and colorizing the besmirching.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
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