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Lee Yuan Sheng
10-15-2010, 11:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://content.photojojo.com/diy/make-a-color-photo-using-black-and-white-photos/b' target='_blank'>http://content.photojojo.com/diy/ma...-white-photos/b</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"We love the ease of digital photography, but sometimes we get an itch for some experimentation.&nbsp;We want to feel like old school photography masters: mixing chemicals in darkrooms and watching images as they slowly develop.&nbsp;So, what did we do when we learned that some of the first color photographs were made almost 150 years ago, and they weren't made with color film?"</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1287126544.usr15670.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></em></p><p>If you're feeling a need to do things differently, here's an old way of making colour photos using a black and white based process. It's a bit redundant in this day and age, but it's a good way of finding out how colour works. Experiment, and enjoy!</p>