Practical
Old photos, in color
A real frame from this shoot.
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, colorized old photos start from an ordinary photo and are rebuilt to the rules that matter: correct crop, plain background, even light, no shadows. Save the finished colorized old photos to your contact sheet; the next renewal, application or form can reuse them without another shoot.
What this session solves
- 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
The shot list
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 PhotoRepair creases and fading with Photo Restoration
Run this before colorizing when the print is damaged.
Photo RestorationUpscale for a framed print
The finished photo can be printed larger than the original ever was.
Image UpscalerBefore you book
Can I tell it a specific color?
Colorize chooses plausible colors from context. For a known color — the blue dress, the green car — send the result to AI Photo Editor and describe it.
Should I restore first or colorize first?
Restore first if the print is damaged or faded, so the color is applied to a clean image. The shot list on this page runs in that order.
How much do colorized old photos cost?
A Standard run is 4 credits and takes seconds; Pro finish is worth it when the file will be printed. New accounts start with 4 free credits, enough for one Standard run.
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