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.

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

Colorizing old photos is such a unique art form. So much history and nostalgia in those photos.

The Japenese colored photos are super cool they used a different technique and it looked super realistic

I love that you're keeping all of these old techniques alive

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 grandmother was a photography tinter in the 1920’s-50’s, I always wondered about supplies ❤

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 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😅

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.🖤🇨🇦

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

The photos where only the clothing is brightly coloured in is honestly such a look

It actually works incredibly well! The fact that the values are not messed up omg 😱😍

My great grandmother used to do this! Thank you for sharing the progress and bringing back a fond memory ⚘

Coloring old photos is so fascinating to me, it’s just so neat to watch. It’s like watching history in reverse.

THAT'S why some old photos look like that???!!! i love this channel so much

I was waiting for you to add blush and lip color but still cool

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 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.

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 still can't get over your eyes. The vermillion looks way different than what I expected.

I think you made that look way easier than it actually is

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.

You really brought her to life :)

Very cool. Like time travel in a fun way. The paints have aged well. How long can they last?

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 ❤❤❤

It looks soo good!!

The capcut logo at the end😭

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 why I love history, history brings some absolutely beautiful things

I appreciate you putting the before and after together AND leaving them Both on the screen long enough to look at Thank you!😊

I have two retouched colored photos of ancestors of mine.

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

i did this in my photography class! it was so cool to see the results and experiment with the oil paints!

That's so cool and really pretty.😊 Stay safe and stay awesome 💜

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❤

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 is so calming somehow like I could jus keep watching videos of you adding in color to old photos

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

That looks really cool. But I didn't think they would add in false colours - it's like colouring in a photograph.

I tried it once in fine art photography, it's so much fun❤

Pretty cool 😎

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

The results are beautiful❤

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.

It's giving me anxiety that you painted the blue colour out of borders.

She turned out so beautiful ❤

oh i love how old retouched pictures look✨

In a heartbeat, yes I would. IG and digital stuff just isn't the same as an actual photograph.

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!

That's so cool! I love how it looks

Thats so whimsical 🫠🦋🖼

My grandmother did this for a living in the 40s-60s! As a woman and an artist, this was the easiest way for her to make money at the time! We still have my dad's childhood family photos she colorized, as well as a beautiful portrait of herself! Thank you for showing me the tools she may have used! ❤❤❤

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 such an amazing piece! I rarely get the joy to see technology out of its time - its as if these little pieces have mostly been lost, the little details, kits, important pieces that would have been used to make things from impossible -> possible. I adore seeing these items; I have such a fascination with retriving these obselete technologies for my and the world's etes to see, thank you so much ♡

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. 😊

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!

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 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 :’)

idk why i believed everyone used to have beautiful handwritings back then

I love this idea, I bet they enjoyed coloring their photos

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!

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!

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.

Wow, cool vintage work idea!

I'm so grateful I'm in a generation when I was able to develop and process black and white film in high-school

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. ☺️

I think it looks amazing!❤

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!

A minored in photography in my twenties and this was part of the learning experience I found it to be really fascinating

This is so cool!! I was surprised it was that easy once you applied the colors!! ❤ thank you for sharing.

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 … “😅

I think I would try it, but not if the paints are toxic, I would get them tested first as old as they are!

This is so interesting… I’ve seen the effect before but didn’t know the process. Thanks for sharing. ✨💕

That looks gorgeous!

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.

Interested to see someone try to paint with these colours

the colour that's just named 'flesh' is so ominous actually

This is so gorgeous and unique. It reminds me a bit of watercolors

Thats so cool! Does the colors need to be sealed?

I need a whole video of just this! It’s so satisfying!

I'd love to try that. It looks really fun, and kinda soothing/relaxing in a way

Yikes you made me feel old!! I remember my neighbor doing this . I haven't thought about it in decades ❤

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

My grandparents have photos that look like this and I always wondered! Super cool.

This looks so fun! Was the color kit expensive?

This is so fascinating. I love art and learning about vintage techniques. What a cool find!

i used to do this but digitally!

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

that’s why old colored photos have a different feel to en

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.

This looks fun, actually!

That is VERY cool! Super satisfying to watch

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

Fun stuff! Used to do it with special markers in photography class in the 90s.

This was my grandma’s job when she was young!! So cool to see what the actual process looks like.

This is gorgeous. To have both. Black and white this technique. My brothers and I had all photographed portraits that were enhanced this manner. They were hanging along the stairs on the wall. You did a good job. Those got nothing on yours.