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Old photos, in color

Your great-grandparents lived in color; the photos just did not. Colorizing old photos in the Studio adds realistic, period-appropriate color to black-and-white and sepia prints — natural skin tones, believable fabric, sky and street — with every detail, the grain and the faces left untouched.

You want to meet the family in the colors they actually wore, for a reunion, a memorial or the wall, without hand-painting a scan. Instead of a booth or a lab, colorized old photos start from an ordinary photo and are rebuilt to what matters: correct crop, clean background, even light, damage repaired. Keep the finished colorized old photos in Your photos; the next renewal, reprint or reunion can reuse them without starting over.

4 free credits — one Standard run of any tool. No card needed.

Before
Old photos, in color — before
After
Old photos, in color — after
Made in the studio from a phone photo.
  • The wedding photo is monochrome and the dress was famously blue
  • Children do not connect with gray great-grandparents
  • A memorial slideshow wants warmth, not archive gray
  • The family history book needs color plates
  1. 01

    Run Colorize on the black-and-white photo

    Realistic, era-appropriate color is added to colorized old photos with every detail and face unchanged.

    Colorize Photo
  2. 02

    Repair creases and fading with Photo Restoration

    Run this before colorizing when the print is damaged.

    Photo Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale for a framed print

    The finished photo can be printed larger than the original ever was.

    Image Upscaler

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