Vintage photos provide an opportunity to engage in creative liberties that enhance the outcome. This is what matters to me - the outcome. Faithfulness to the original photo is a illusory considering that the colorization process on its own creates an entirely new visual experience that renders the original vintage photo a mere outline and a shadow. The outcome is no longer the same as the original. That is why colorized vintage photos can be copyrighted. They are legally considered derivative works entitled to their own intellectual property protection for the colorizer.
Here is a vintage portrait of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis taken in 1953 on the day of her wedding to Senator John F. Kennedy from Massachusetts. I could have used baby blue, fuschia, yellow or mint green on her dress that can create a more pleasing visual result. However, from online sources, I learned her wedding dress was white. That was the only concession I made but the rest were all a products of creative liberties that on the whole renders the colorized image entirely different from the original.
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