Colorize black and white photos
Add colour to archive photographs and see them closer to how they actually looked. The AI recognises what is in the frame — skin, fabric, foliage, sky — and picks a believable palette for each. No selecting regions by hand, no matching shades with a brush.
Try it freeNothing to install. Your first edit is free.
Before
AfterHow the AI knows what colour it was
It does not — and that is worth saying plainly. The model recognises objects and assigns the statistically most likely colours: skin tones, green foliage, blue sky, the typical fabric colours of the period. It gets natural things right because their range is narrow. It cannot know your grandmother's dress happened to be burgundy rather than navy.
Family and archive photographs
Portraits and outdoor shots with a readable background work best — that is where the AI has the most to go on. Harder cases are dim interiors and heavily overexposed frames where the bright areas have lost all structure. In those, improve the photo quality first.
Order matters
If a photograph is both damaged and black and white, restore it first and colourise second. The other way round, the model colours scratches and stains as if they were part of the scene, and those artefacts are then baked into the result for good.
How it works
Upload a photo
From your phone, your computer or a scan. One file is enough — no cropping or clean-up needed first.
Pick the effect
Choose what should change. Add your own instruction if you want to be specific about a detail.
Download the result
Get the finished file in full resolution. Your original stays untouched.
Frequently asked questions
Will the colours be historically accurate?
They will be believable, not documented. Natural things — skin, foliage, sky — come out convincingly; the colour of a specific garment is the model's proposal.
Can I correct a colour I do not like?
Yes. Add an instruction — naming the colour of a dress or a background, for instance — and generate again.
Does it overwrite my original?
No. The result is saved as a new file and the original photo stays untouched.
Does it work on sepia, not just black and white?
Yes. To the model sepia is the same case — a single-tone image that needs a palette.