Colorize Photo

A black-and-white photograph is a record with the color removed. Colorize puts it back with judgment: natural skin tones for each person, believable colors for clothing, cars, buildings and landscape, and a palette appropriate to the era — muted and warm for a 1940s street, brighter for a 1970s snapshot. Every detail, the grain and the faces are kept exactly as they are; only color is added. The result looks like the photo was taken in color, not painted afterwards.

It works on studio portraits, family snapshots, wedding photos, school pictures, street scenes and landscapes, from scans or from phone photos of prints. Faded or damaged originals benefit from Photo Restoration first, so the Studio colors a clean image. Where a historical color is known — a uniform, a family car — AI Photo Editor can adjust it afterwards from a description. The output keeps the aspect ratio of the original.

A Standard run costs 4 credits and develops in seconds; Pro and Max finishes handle skin and fabric transitions with more nuance, which shows in portraits. Colorize is the middle step of a typical family-archive chain — restore, colorize, upscale — and a moving way to meet a grandparent in the colors they actually lived in. Compare against the monochrome original with one tap before you download.