Tinted photograph is a photograph produced on dyed printing papers produced by commercial manufacturers or a

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. A single overall colour underlies the images printed on dyed photographic papers and is most apparent in the highlights and mid-tones. From the 1870s

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printing papers were available in pale pink or blue and from the 1890s gelatin silver printing-out papers in pale mauve or pink were available. There were other kinds of tinted papers. Over time such colouration often becomes very faded.The paper is also used to highlight the important thing or part on it.

Other meanings

''Tinted photograph'' is also one of a number of names for a

, i.e. a black-and-white photographic print to which color has been added by hand. Other names are hand-painted photograph and hand-tinted photograph.

References

* Baldwin, Gordon. ''Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms'' (Malibu, Calif.: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Museum Press, London, 1991), 7, 35, 55, 80, 81–82.
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