Anybody can use Photoshop, but doing a good job remains a craft. Professional colorist from Brazil, Marina Amaral, doesn't simply click-and-drag. Driven by her burning obsession with history, Marina does extensive research to construct her colorizations as realistic as possible, too.

Amaral has played with Photoshop since she was about ten. In 2015, she was scrolling a history forum on the internet and discovered colorized photos of World War I. Instantly inspired, Amaral started restoring and putting color into photos that were originally black and white. This allows people to experience the past through a whole new perspective. “Each photo is made to be realistic by recognizing the value behind each one of them, respecting and preserving their stories, paying attention to the finer details and to continue their original essence.”

“Every completed work has gone through long and in depth research, and is supported by the opinions of experts in each particular area if necessary, to faithfully reproduction the original colourings and atmosphere, ” she adds. “My work ranges from simple portraits to complex and detailed images, taken from various historical periods encompas a wide range of topics.” Continue scrolling to enjoy Marina's wonderful work.

# 1 Ruby Bridges, Escorted By US Marshals To Attend An All-White School, 1960

# 2 Cree Man, Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1903

# 3 Monet

# 4 A Photographer Uses His Own Backdrop To Mask Poland's World War II Ruins While Shooting A Portrait In Warsaw In November 1946

# 5 Marie Sklodowska Curie

# 6 Lewis Powell. He Was A Conspirator With John Wilkes Booth, Who Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln

# 7 Queen Elizabeth II

# 8 Four Female Pilots Leaving Their Ship, Pistol Packin' Mama, At The Four Engine School At Lockbourne AAF, 1944

# 9 Banana Docks, New York. CA 1890 – 1910

#10 Finnish Sniper Simo Hayha, White Death

#12 Eunice Hancock, A 21 -Year-Old Woman, Operates A Compressed-Air Grinder In A Midwest Aircraft Plant During World War II. August 1942

#13 Young Kenyan Woman Holding A Dik-Dik, Mombasa, 1909

#14 Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth II. 2 June, 1953

#15 Roza Shanina, A 19 -Year-Old Russian WWII Sniper With 59 Confirmed Kills

#16 The Most Intelligent Picture Ever Taken: Participants Of The 5th Solvay Conference On Quantum Mechanics, 1927

#17 Men Of 72 Highlanders Who Served In The Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison And John Harper, 1853 aEUR” 1856

#18 Senator John F. Kennedy And Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy On Their Wedding Day. September 12, 1953

#19 Hermann GAPring Sits In The Dock At The Nuremberg Trial, 1946

#20 Grigori Rasputin. Lover Of The Russian Empress

#22 Italian Immigrants Arrive At Ellis Island, 1905

#23 Einstein And Chaplin

#24 Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

#25 Albert Einstein, 1 March 1921

#26 Lincoln, 1860

#27 Winston Churchill As A Cornet In The 4th Queen's Hussar's Cavalry, 1895

#28 Queen Victoria And Their own families, Including King Edward VII, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, Kaiser Wilhelm II And Empress Frederick At A Wedding In Coburg, Germany, 1894

#29 Faces Of Auschwitz: Janina Nowak

#30 The Liberation Of Bergen-Belsen, April 1945

#32 Sami Girl, 1938, Suenjel, Petsamo

#33 A Group Of Bootblacks Gather Around An Old Civil War Veteran In Pennsylvania, 1935

#34 Queen Elizabeth Great Grandmother

#35 American Infantrymen Of The U. S. ArmyaEUR( tm) s 92 nd Infantry Division( aEURoeBuffalo Soldiers DivisionaEUR) Are Photographed At Rest In Italy. April 1945

#36 Jack Kerouac

#37 School At Anthoston, Kentucky, 1916

#38 Civil Rights March On Washington, D. C. With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Mathew Ahmann In A Crowd

#39 Hiroshima After Bombing

#40 Unemployed Lumber Worker( Thomas Cave) Goes With His Wife( Vivian) To The Bean Harvest, Oregon, August 1939

#42 Filthy Thirteen Member Clarence Ware Applies War Paint To Charles Plaudo. England, 31 December 1943

#43 Bull Chief, An Indian Warrior, Apsaroke Tribe. The Photo Was Taken In 1908 By Edward S. Curtis. He Is Wearing A Buffalo Headdress With Horns

#44 Booker T. Washington

#45 Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen With Wife Pat, And Eleven-Month-Old Son Kent, 1947

#46 Soccer Team Of British WWI Soldiers Wearing Gas Masks, France, 1916

#47 Photograph From The Main Eastern Theater Of The War, Battle Of Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, And Maj. Gen. John A. Mcclernand, 1862

#48 Brazilian Army Pvt. Francisco De Paula Of The Brazilian Expeditionary Force During The Italian Campaign, WWII

#49 Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria

#50 Gustave Eiffel

#52 Ice-Skaters On Ice In Tuxedo Park, New York, Circa 1904

#53 James Dean

#54 Dick Winters And His Easy Company( Hbo's Band Of Brother) Lounging At Eagle's Nest, Hitler's Former Residence In The Bavarian Alps, 1945

#55 Dumpu, New Guinea, 7 October 1943. Members Of The 2/2 nd Australian Independent Company

#56 A Slovak Woman With Her Child – Ellis Island Immigrants, 1900 s

#57 Angoni Warriors At King George VaEUR( tm) s Coronation Celebrations, Zomba, 1911

#58 MalmAP, SkAY= ne, Sweden, 1910

#59 French Soldier Falls After Being Shot In No-Man's-Land At Verdun

#60 Mark Twain 1900 s

#62 A German Soldier With A Saw Tooth Bayonet Stands In A Dugout Wearing His Brow Plate Slid Down To His Neck, World War One

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