What a strange hill to die on.

It really is crazy what AI can do

Not only does it give a better real-world feel - the world isn't black and white. It (this website OP posted) has brought out a lot more detail in the couple dozen photos I've run through it. Lots of things I noticed that I didn't before. So yes, this process definitely has value.

Future iterations likely will have those features. This tech is just recently being made available to the public.

For now, you can just re-run it again for another variation

It got the color of my shirt EXACTLY correct in a black and white picture I ran through it. This is incredible.

Oh man, this is great! I have so many old family pictures of people I've could never have met and now they look so real! Sadly, this seems to struggle with sepia ones and pics from before 1900.

I completely understand the sentiment, and I love the idea of someone seeing a loved one in color.

I did a restoration for my grandparents, but I was able to say "what color was that jacket?" and "what color was that dress?" and "what color was that truck?" They loved it and I loved doing it. I googled to find the original colors everywhere I could.

Colorizing something and just guessing the colors, or letting AI guess the colors, is something else entirely. I get doing it to learn colorization, or as a fun experiment, but I still believe it's the equivalent of a coloring book, and ruins a perfectly good black and white photo, which is a more accurate representation of history.

Try Myheritage colorizer. It's consistently the best in testing.

Of course it's paid, and all colorizers are ultimately guessing

For some people, particularly the older generation, they only have black and white photos of loved ones to remember them by, but that's not an accurate representation of who that person was, because the world obviously doesn't exist in monochrome.

For those people I imagine it would be emotional to finally see an image of a loved one in colour, and not have to rely on memory alone which can fade over time

[deleted]

The NASA one especially looks awesome

you're getting down voted but you're right

Thank you for this, I colorized some pics of my grandparents and when I showed my mom she cried

I've done dozens of photo restorations and I am so against arbitrary colorization. It's bastardizing the source material. Sharpen it, fine. Reduce noise, fine. Correct imperfections, fine. Adding color to a photo like a coloring book is so pointless. I honestly don't understand why anyone wants to do it to a photo that means anything to them.

I will add that in the next update. Thanks

Thanks!

No ads in my app!! Spotify's commercials remain

Does it reduce the amount of commercials for the free service?

They'll be singing folk songs about the trade in a hundred years.

I took several photos I had, turned them black and white, then uploaded them. It was way off every time. This is literally just randomly guessing

myheritage is offering such a service for years.

The smarter playlist thing the other guy commented ended up working for me. Took a while to figure out though

Thanks for this. Did a couple of my mam’s wedding photos, they look amazing. She loves them.

To get decent color, you really have to play around with the auto-generated text. I suggest copying each set of text you like as you play around so you can see what does / doesn't work. Would be nice to find more details on how the A.I. is colorizing things.

I found that fixing the colorization for some objects would mess up the rest of the picture.

For example, there was a BW pic of a fast train. Each time I changed the color of the train, it tinted the entire picture. Some weird colors for the train made everything else look good, and some good colors for the train messed everything else up.

If you are willing to use photoshop to slice out objects, you can get better overall results.

Wow, that's very impressive. I've seen some AI colorized photos before that were not anywhere near this level.