Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month - July 2022

[Tony Griffiths]

One of the ancestry sites has a program that can turn old black/white photos into true coloured ones.  Anyone on here have such a program so we could see these old photos in true colours?
In the early days of TV before colour we had black/white TVs on our ships and once colour became more common and after a bit of lobbying the firm got Marconi to make up boards of electronics that I fitted to the TVs to turn them into full colour using the UK standard (American standard - NTSC was hopeless).  If I remember correctly, the electronics just converted the"grey scale " of the pictures to colour through suitable TV tubes that had the 3 slots for the 3 colours that make up the spectrum......such luxury in those days and quite a bit of a pain setting up the various adjustable components on the boards.  Didn't last long as it fortunately soon became cheaper to buy colour TVs than mess about doing the conversions.

Dennis

There are many programs that do a basic greyscale to colour conversion (just Google it) - and they are getting better. Unfortunately, they still need some quite involved handwork afterwards using Photoshop - or the whole thing can be done by hand using that program if you have the time and patience. Here's one I did with an auto-convert program,  followed by some hand adjustments.