colorizing B&W in Photoshop?

[kene555]

A group I belong in at school is doing a documentary on the Battle of Lake Erie during the war of 1812. We've got a lot of old maps in black in white. We have no idea what their original color was, and we want to colorize it. I've checked up on many sites, and all the tutorials on colorizing black and white have you make a mask and put the color in yourself. Any other ways to add color?

[redkorn]

Well its hard for to explain but its easy to do. all you need to do is use the brush tool make a new layer ontop of the B/W photo then color in the new layer what color you think goes where. Then use the blending options to add realism. There more involved but im too lazy to write it all out. But this should do for what your doing.

[MasterMike]

Seeing as there's no colour information there to begin with, you're going to have to add it yourself. It's not going to be a one-click thing, and I don't see any other way of doing it.

[kene555]

Thanks.