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Colorize Black and White Photos

See the people in your old photos the way they looked that day. Skin, sky, wood and grass get natural colour, and every face and expression stays exactly as it was.

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Faded 1950s black and white photo of a couple on a porch, creased, torn and scratchedOld photo restored: the 1950s couple on the porch without creases or scratches, now in colourBeforeAfterColorize, with damage repaired too
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Faded 1950s black and white photo of a couple on a porch, creased, torn and scratchedOld photo restored: the 1950s couple on the porch without creases or scratches, now in colourBeforeAfterColorize, with damage repaired too

Black and white to color, Grandma and Grandpa included.

On the porch in the 1950s, they have only ever been grey. Colorizing gives the suit, the floral dress, the boards and the trees natural tones, and keeps their smiles exactly as they were. This one also had Repair damage switched on, so the crease and the torn corner were fixed in the same run. Prefer the original grain? Leave it off and only colour is added. A good photo colorizer knows when to stop, and this one leaves faces and framing alone.

  • Skin, wood and leaves in believable colour
  • Faces and expressions left as they are
  • Creases and tears fixed in the same run, if you ask
Old sepia portrait of a boy in a sailor suit, faded, water-stained and crackedSepia portrait of a boy in a sailor suit restored and colourised, stains and cracks removedBeforeAfterColorize, with damage repaired too

From faded sepia to a portrait you can frame.

Brown, blotchy and cracked, this studio portrait was hard to look at. Colour turns it back into a boy in a blue sailor suit on a red velvet chair. Colours a photo can’t show, like the exact shade of the suit, are a best guess: a natural, believable version rather than a record. You can colorize a black and white photo or a faded brown one in exactly the same way.

  • Sepia and faded prints work too
  • Natural tones, never cartoon-bright
  • Stains and cracks cleared with Repair damage

Colorize a photo in three steps. No painting by hand.

No brushes, no layers, no choosing colours one by one. You add colour to a black and white photo with one press, and the tones are picked for you.

  1. Old sepia portrait of a boy in a sailor suit, faded, water-stained and cracked

    Add the photo

    A scan, or a phone photo of the print taken flat in even daylight. Avoid glare and flash, which show up as bright patches.

  2. Old sepia portrait of a boy in a sailor suit, faded, water-stained and cracked

    Colorize

    Press Colorize. Switch on Repair damage too if the print is scratched, torn or faded. Repair needs a free account.

  3. Sepia portrait of a boy in a sailor suit restored and colourised, stains and cracks removed

    Download and share

    Save it with no watermark and send it to the family, or print it for the wall.

Old faces, new life.

Colour makes people in old photos feel close again. These are the photos people bring most.

Parents and grandparents

See the people you grew up hearing about in the colours of their day.

Family history

Add colour to the faces on your family tree and they stop feeling like strangers.

Service photos

Uniform portraits of the relatives who served, in colour for a remembrance day. Ribbon and badge colours are a best guess, so check them with what the family knows.

Your hometown

Old streets, shops and the house you grew up in, the way they looked back then. Colorize an image of the high street and set it next to today.

Gifts

A colour print of an old wedding or family photo for a birthday or an anniversary.

School projects

Bring a history project to life with old photos in colour. Classmates see that the past looked as real as today.

Questions about colorizing photos

Something else? Email support@pixenhancer.ai

Yes. Without an account you can colorize 3 photos a day for free. A free account also collects 10 credits a day, enough for 5 more at 2 credits each; after that, credits start at $4.99 for 60 credits. If a run fails, the credits come back on their own.

They were never grey. See them in colour.

Natural colour for old family photos, in one step.