Explore this spookily good Photoshop filter and learn how to perfect the hand-tinted effect

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►► Before color film, hand-tinting was a specialist task. Painters would painstakingly add splashes of color to prints, or – in the case of moving images – directly onto the roll of film using tiny brushes. These days, we can add color to our old photos by using a simple Photoshop technique. The Colorize filter can do much of the work for us. As one of the recently introduced Neural Filters, it uses artificial intelligence to recognise people and objects in a photo, then colors them accordingly.