colourising old black&white photographs

Binkie_Huckaback

Bit of a niche interest, but I was wondering if anybody can recommend a website that's good at colourising old B/W images? The free ones I have tried so far(via a google search) haven't been much good, quality-wise.

Free or low-cost preferred!

Neil_Jones

Nothing automated is going to be perfect, it will require manual intervention.  Especially if automated AI guess wrong.

Paint.net is one option, other similar things exist for other image editing programs:

https://rdtk.net/software/how-you-can-put-color-in-black-white-colored-photos-with-paint-internet/

Binkie_Huckaback

Thanks, I've got GIMP which I think also allows you to colourise photos.. if you know how to do it! Not quite sure my skills are up to this, so was looking for an automatic colouriser.

[Deleted User]

Not much help (I know my Affinity app can do it but its a bit deep), the big issue for me would the privacy terms and conditions of any site, regarding this auto do.

Stompa

This:

https://www.myheritage.com/incolor

is the best one we've discovered. You do have to register, and I think it only allows you to then do a limited number of photos. However, there's nothing to stop you registering again and carrying on.

Le_Kirk

Your user name is showing your age @Binkie_Huckaback!  Does Dame Celia Molestrangler know you escaped from the home?  I assume you are/were a fan of Round the Horne.

lammy82

If you have a reasonable (not excessive) number of them, you can request Redditors to colourise your pictures at https://www.reddit.com/r/colorizationrequests - Just make sure you read the rules before posting, make sure you include [Free] in the title (or indeed [Paid] if you're willing to pay) and be appropriately thankful to anyone who volunteers their time to help you!

chrisbur

Stompa said:

This:

https://www.myheritage.com/incolor

is the best one we've discovered. You do have to register, and I think it only allows you to then do a limited number of photos. However, there's nothing to stop you registering again and carrying on.

I have used this one several times, it does put a watermark of MyHeritage in the bottom right hand corner.  If you prefer one un-watermarked add a bit to the bottom of the picture and that will have the watermark this  can then be cropped back to the original picture.

Binkie_Huckaback

Le_Kirk said:

Your user name is showing your age @Binkie_Huckaback!  Does Dame Celia Molestrangler know you escaped from the home?  I assume you are/were a fan of Round the Horne.

Ha ha, I didn't think I'd get away with Celia Molestrangler as a username so I went for Binkie instead. They're currently repeating series 2 of Round the Horne on radio 4 extra if anyone's interested/old like me!