Colorist

A colorist is a visual arts professional - one of a variety of kinds - whose work involves adding or adjusting color in a collaborative work.

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In comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black and white line art. Originally, this was done by cutting out films of various densities in the appropriate shapes to be used in producing color-separated printing plates. More recently, colorists have worked in transparent media such as watercolors or airbrush, which is then photographed, allowing more subtle and painterly effects. Most contemporary colorists work in digital media using tools such as Adobe Photoshop.

Digital media: Digital media encompasses digital audio, digital video, the World Wide Web and other technologies that can be used to create, refer to and distribute digital "content"....

Adobe Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the market leader for commercial bitmap image manipulation, and probably the most well-known piece of software produced by Adobe Systems. It is usually referred to s...