Colorize - Color to Old Photos

I didn’t really expect much, but it really works (most of the time). Since I didn’t have any b&w photos, I downloaded some from the web. It seems to struggle when there are multiple people in different lighting. It seems to know patterns and is able to color based on those patterns such as bricks or wood. It was unable to colorize the U.S. flag, however. I had a color picture of a Buckingham Palace guard that I turned b&w and ran through the app. It knew the coat was supposed to be red. Overall, this app is very good at what it does. I’m hoping there will continue to be improvements.

I appreciate and am grateful for what the app does, many thanks to the developers for this program. It's fun turning black and white photos into color photos. Still, when the render process happens I noticed that it leaves spots of the photos I'm using untouched with color. A majority of the photo will be colorized very well and it's quite remarkable I think how well and seemingly magically this app performs this function. But, in pretty much every photo I've uploaded and imported. The render process will always leave spots of the photo I'm using untouched and those spots remain black and white or sepia or whatever else the original tint was in the source. I haven't tried taking a scan of a black and white photo to colorize yet, so the app may provide better results using it that way. Overall, though, I'm happy and grateful for such a nice, free application, thank you. Maybe with some updates to the program that I'm sure will follow. The developers could hone the process some more so that the render and transformation process doesn't leave any spots of imported photos untouched please. Thanks if you'll look into this issue. Also, thank you again for this wonderful free tool and if you'll consider looking into refining and improving the colorization process and God bless.

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One out of nine images you process will be useable. The ones that are keepers are amazing. The artificial intelligence is mind blowing. But there’s always a hand that gets missed, while the rest of the fleshy parts are great. It’s understandable that body parts get missed Unforgivable, however, is the fact that there is no way to go back and fix whatever the algorithm missed. You can’t expect perfection from a machine. So I have to go off and find some other program to use for cleaning up the mess. Programs like Hair Color add similar tints, but the color picker doesn’t allow you to pick up colors from the image itself. The lack of frisket masks makes Hair Color worse than tinting a photo with Marshall’s oil tints on a photographic print. I’ve tried literally dozens of beautify programs to enhance the output of this software. It works great. Sometimes. The whole process is just too unpredictable. Why must developers see this as an either/or proposition???? Either machine intelligence OR human driven interface!!!! That’s completely nuts!!! Let the machine try very hard to get the job done. THEN let the human step in and clean things up. _______________________________________________ **Update** Since posting this review, all save options have disappeared. As if one out of nine photos wasn’t bad enough, now I get none out of every none.

Naturally the software used is infantile, but it is quite amazing. It record images with a great recollection for colors-sometimes. Skin tones are amazing but don’t always cover the entire body. Sometimes the face will be perfect but the chest or arms and hands won’t be colored. Other times the clothes are passed over entirely. I’m sure as time goes on the recoloring will better, but for now it is an amazing tool. Hopefully someday you will be able to totally recolor an image with a fair degree of accuracy. Also another small thing, when uploading, you should be allowed to choose what album you want to search through. Scrolling through my moments for a specific date is quite a pain. Other than that, great app!

So I’ve just started using the app and honestly the pictures look pretty awesome. My 2 main issues so far are.... 1. The slider doesn’t go all the way across the photo. So there’s always a strip of B/W down the right side of every photo. I don’t need a slider at all, and it just seems to be getting in the way. 2. I have no control over the cropping, so for the problem above I would just shrink the photo slightly to make sure the colorizing goes all the way across, but I can’t, so I don’t. The lack of these basics options are frustrating. Pictures look great for the parts that get covered! Hopefully that’ll be fixed soon or I’ll figure out a way around it.