Colourising old photos

Splinter · February 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM

I've been trying to find a free colourising program/site for some time and have just come across this AI powered site which I've used to colourise some family photos, at least six so far and I haven't been asked to pay anything yet.

This is a photograph from around 1963, set in Spain. I don't know who the people are, but I think my parents met them when corossing over for a bull fight from Gibraltar.

I was amazed when I first saw this!

Anyway, give it a try.

Image Colorizer

Add color to old family photos and historic images, or bring an old film back to life with colorization.

deepai.org

UK Man · February 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM

Don't think I've got any B&W photos.....too young. The missus is bound to have some though. I'll ask her and give it a try.

Rice · February 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM

Astounding! I have loads of B&W pictures of my parents. Thanks!

serafina · February 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM

I have given it a try and it brought alive my GGM, who I never met (or who I recall meeting!).

I tried it with an old b&w picture of mine, and it picked random color for my clothing (blue) but I am sure I was wearing a red jacket on that day, as there are other pictures of me with the same jacket.

Regardless, it is amazing. Great find!

I am wondering how it manages to guess the skin tone based on the facial features.

UK Man · February 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM

I found one of me when I was a boy. Didn't work very well.

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Rice · February 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM

The colorizing didn’t work very well, but it’s such a cute photo!

UK Man · February 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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The colorizing didn’t work very well, but it’s such a cute photo!

Always had big feet for my height!!

Splinter · February 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM

I think it must depend on the quality of the original photo.

UK Man · February 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM

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I think it must depend on the quality of the original photo.

Yes, that was a newspaper cutting so not a fair example.

Colourising old photos

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