colorize

English

Alternative forms

• colourise (UK)

• colourize (Canada)

Etymology

color +‎ -ize

Verb

1. To add color to.

   The child colorized the drawing.

   The woman colorized her hair.

2. (photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).

   There is a colorized version of Casablanca.

   • 1988 August 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Looking for America”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     What we see are beautiful overlapping NASA satellite photographs of the American mainland, […] taken in black and white and then luminously colorized by computer for scientific reasons.

Synonyms

• (to add color to): color (colour), color in (colour in)

Antonyms

• (to change or lose color): discolor (discolour)

Derived terms

• colorization (colourisation)
• colorizer (colouriser)

Translations

to add color to

• Arabic: لَوَّنَ m (lawwana)
• French: coloriser (fr), colorier (fr)
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• Swedish: (about clothes, hair etc) färga (sv), färglägga (sv)

to convert a black and white media to color

• German: kolorieren (de)
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• Italian: colorizzare (it)
• Swedish: färglägga (sv)