I have often found images on the Internet of vintage models. I have found a B&W version and also a colour one.

The images were probably scanned from a magazine (and probably from a pocket-sized magazine, which was very popular in the 60s), so they were printed in B&W.

However, some people think that it would be great to recreate the photo in colour.

Sometimes those colourised jobs are great, but sometimes they are not.

I do not understand why some “digital artists” enhanced some “parts” of the body, or even added “details” that were not visible in the original print. There was a reason for that, and it is part of the glamour of those vintage photos.

I believe that adding the details loses the candid glamour of that time.

Moreover, sometimes you can see photos that have been colourised, pretending that the model was naked.

This is an example:

I found this photo online:

This image is part of a series of photos taken by Harrison Marks at the Ewhurst Manor gardens and published in Kamera and other magazines.

Then I found this colorised version:

The problem is that this image belongs to a series of published photos, some of them in colour. In the original colour images, you can see she is wearing green leggings. But in the colourised version, the “artist” made her look naked or wear the wrong colour of leggings.

I re-edit the image and fix the problem in this case, but how often will we find digital colourised images that do not respect the original image?:

You can see the set here