Watch how our 1850 friend, Bernice, transforms before your very eyes into brilliant 21st century color!

The first image was painted using filters from Photoshop.  The color was a bit too high chroma, so I fussed with a few other filters to make Bernice look like she's under a glass frame, tweaked the gamma a bit, and even added a painted background to make her image look more authentic, like she was sitting in a portrait studio.  Then added texture to the frame part to make it look like old canvas, blurred that, then projected that lens flare again.  The last image is the black and white jpg I found online.  Makes me wonder what the original photo looked like, and what colors Bernice actually wore.  I guessed her outfit to be in jewel tones, popular for the period.  I gave her the name Bernice because she looks like someone who is normally dull looking and doesn't get dressed up that often, except for a picture.  I'm also guessing that she was she moved to the U.S. from Britian and this photo was her way to send word to her folks that her life as a schoolmistress is going well, but no husband yet...

Now Bernice looks like her picture was taken just yesterday.