It's hard to imagine photography without color. For Victorians, however, color photography was a distant dream. So if one wished to have a "color" photographic print, one had to color or tint it oneself. Here are some of the techniques that were used, along with some basic photography tips.

Photography, Considered in Relation to its Educational and Practical Value, by Robert Hunt (Art Journal, 1858)

Photography for Portraits: A Dialogue in an Artist's Studio, by Ronald Campbell (Art Journal, 1858)

Amateur Photography, by W. de W. Abney (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1879)

A Few Practical Hints on Painting Photos (Girl's Own Paper, 1882)

A Word About Crystoleum Painting (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1883)

Amateur Instantaneous Photography, by Rev. A.H. Malan (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

Canvasine, by Blanche C. Saward (Girl's Own Paper, 1884)

"The object of canvasine is to so prepare and colour a photograph that when finished it looks like an oil painting."

Crystoleum, or Chromo-Photography, by Blanche C. Saward (Girl's Own Paper, 1884)

A fairly complex process that involves applying a photograph to a glass surface, coating it with a wax mixture until it becomes transparent, and then painting it.

What Is Kartaline? (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

Answer: A method of coloring photographs.

Photography for Girls, by J. Pocock (Girl's Own Paper, 1886)

The Amateur Photographer, by Dwight W. Huntington (Century Magazine, 1887B)

Tips on photographic techniques, equipment, and subject matter.

The Camera, the Lantern and the Microscope, by J. Pocock (Girl's Own Paper, 1890)

How to take photos through a microscope.

Photographic Knick-Knacks (Girl's Own Paper, 1890)

A variety of photo-printing techniques, including printing photos on silk.

Five Girls and a Camera (Girl's Own Paper, 1892)

How to Give a Picture-Play, by Alexander Black (Ladies Home Journal, 1898)

"A 'picture-play' is a story told in photographic pictures taken from life."

Birds'-Nesting with a Camera, by Herbert C. Fyfe (Windsor Magazine, 1899B)