Colourise

v1Pro

Add colour to a black and white photograph — every hue is an inference.

You give
A black and white photograph
You get
A colour version
How saturatedNatural
Hand-tintedNaturalFullModern

colour it naturally, with restrained period-accurate tones

Colours you know

The nameis what gets sent, not the hex — a model has a much firmer grip on “dark green” than on a swatch. Leave the description empty for a colour that applies to the whole picture.

Runs in the background — you can leave this page, and the result still lands in your Generator library.

How this works

Adds colour to a black and white photograph.

Every colour it chooses is a guess. A monochrome negative does not record hue, so the model is inferring from material and period — plausibly, and sometimes wrongly. If you know what colour something was, say so and it will be followed rather than guessed at.

Colour is kept restrained and plausible for the period, and every tone keeps its relative brightness, so the picture does not quietly gain contrast it never had. Nothing is sharpened, no detail is added and faces are left alone — a colourisation that redraws the subject is not a colourisation.

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