colorize
verbUK /ˈkʌ.lə.raɪz/
Etymology From color + -ize.
1
US To add color to.
- The woman colorized her hair.
2
Arts, Broadcasting, Cinematography, Film, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Media, Photography, Television US 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.
- 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.1988 August 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Looking for America”, in Chicago Reader:
- Antonyms
- discolor
- Derived terms
- colorization, colorizer, pseudocolorize