Black and White Photograph Color Restoration

This was a personal project as a gift for my grandparents. I wanted to challenge myself to do color restoration on an old photograph. Layers of paintings on top of each other in layers of transparency to retain the contours and contrast of the original photo. I edited smudges and imperfections in the print. Those depicted are left to right: my grandmother Chrisoula, my grandfather Stavros, his sister Eleni, and her husband Nickiforos all in their mid twenties. I had no reference to what actual colors they were wearing and the background so I just tweaked and discovered which colors worked well together and made sense in the lighting in the photograph.