affinity photo Automatic colorize an black and white picture…

[AffinityMakesMeWonder]

Hi there!

Stumble upon an video that demonstated how to colorize black and white pictures…

He used an site called palette.fm, this use AI to colorize, take this new colorized pictures into Affinity Photo and use this in blend mode ’Color’ to get the color information to the hiresolution black and white pictures…

 

[Komatös]

I have tried it myself and it works great. Something like this as a plugin for Affinity Photo would be nice.
 

[AffinityNoobToday]

Face26 is currently develop a new colorizer and they can integrate this via APIs with Affinity. 

 

[Twolane]

I don't know about the professional users of Affinity, but that sure does look interesting to me as a rank amateur.

[DGee]

On 3/24/2023 at 2:36 PM, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

Hi there!

Stumble upon an video that demonstated how to colorize black and white pictures…

He used an site called palette.fm, this use AI to colorize, take this new colorized pictures into Affinity Photo and use this in blend mode ’Color’ to get the color information to the hiresolution black and white pictures…

 

this is amazing man

[Fus3]

On 3/24/2023 at 8:36 AM, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

Hi there!

Stumble upon an video that demonstated how to colorize black and white pictures…

He used an site called palette.fm, this use AI to colorize, take this new colorized pictures into Affinity Photo and use this in blend mode ’Color’ to get the color information to the hiresolution black and white pictures…

 

Wow!!! This is super impressive.  I've restored photos for a few clients and I've colorized those images manually in Affinity Photo.  This as a plugin would be huge in affinity photo.  I've never used photoshop. In fact, I started my professional photography career using affinity phot because of the price.  The only thing I feel affinity lacks, is support for plugins.  

[Fus3]

On 4/3/2023 at 9:00 AM, Abdushakur said:

Yea, this is the times we live in. This is an excellent resource for quick colorization. There is still an art and benefit to the process of hand painting or digitally painting old photos. 

I agree.  I've restored photos manually.  I love the process of scanning old photos, removing dust and imperfections, colorizing them, and digitizing them for my clients.  Tech is changing so fast now! 

[sansnom]

On 3/24/2023 at 2:36 PM, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

Hi there!

Stumble upon an video that demonstated how to colorize black and white pictures…

He used an site called palette.fm, this use AI to colorize, take this new colorized pictures into Affinity Photo and use this in blend mode ’Color’ to get the color information to the hiresolution black and white pictures…

 

Interesting and practical.

There is also the PhotosRevive app https://neededapps.com/photosrevive/ which does a nice job:

[Kasper-V]

It's impressive, isn't it! It even gave good results for some of my great-grandfather's Canada photos from 120 years ago (though the Niagara River came out green 😵).

[AffinityMakesMeWonder]

1 hour ago, Kasper-V said:

It's impressive, isn't it! It even gave good results for some of my great-grandfather's Canada photos from 120 years ago (though the Niagara River came out green 😵).

Great to hear!

Niagara River green? Did you choose among all 15 different coloring presets?

[Kasper-V]

2 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

Niagara River green? Did you choose among all 15 different coloring presets?

No, just the first one; I was trying it out on different photos. It handles even very poor quality ones well. If you mouse over the photo while it's uploading and processing it shows a list of things it's identified in the image; one of the things in the Niagara pic was 'algae', hence the green water, I presume.

[Solly]

Kasper, perhaps the app determined the photo had been taken on St. Patricks day and concluded that the Niagara River had been treated with a dye and was competing with the Chicago River that day.