Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian colorist. She specializes in adding color to black and white photographs pixel by pixel using Photoshop through a process of careful historical research to determine the colors of each object pictured. A self-taught artist, she was an international relations student in college but quit in April of 2015 to pursue art full time.Amaral reports that although she had always been interested in history she knew nothing about the process of digital colorization until she read about it on an online forum.Amaral describes what she does as providing a "second perspective" as the pictures with color convey images that do not seem too far removed from the contemporaneous viewer.Her process of colorizing a photo can take as little as an hour or more than a month to complete.