Restore
Colorize Black and White Photo
Natural color for black and white photos. Adds realistic, period-appropriate color to black and white photos: skin tones, clothing, sky and interiors, without changing a single face or detail.
Before
After, straight from our test, no retouching
What Colorize Black and White Photo does
Colorize Black and White Photo adds natural, era-appropriate color to black and white photos: skin tones, clothing, interiors and sky, without changing any face or detail.
How to use Colorize Black and White Photo
- Upload black and white photo, or pick it from your library.
- Press Generate. The instructions for the job are already set up, so there is no prompt to write.
- Your image is usually ready in under three minutes. Save it to your library or download it.
Tips for the best result
- Restore damaged photos first; colorizing over scratches colors the scratches too.
- Sharper originals give more convincing color.
- Colors are educated guesses, so a known detail, like a uniform color, may come out different.
Ideas for using it
- Bringing family photos to life for an anniversary or reunion.
- Color versions of archive photos for a history project.
- Gifts: a colorized print next to the original.
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Colorize Black and White Photo FAQ
Are the colors accurate?
They are plausible, not known. The tool picks natural colors for the era, but it cannot know the real color of a dress.
How long does it take?
My test took a little over two minutes.
Is Colorize Black and White Photo free?
Colorize Black and White Photo is included with every PixelDojo plan and costs a few credits per image, shown on the Generate button before you run it.
Who owns the result, and can I use it commercially?
We assign you whatever rights we hold in the result, so you can use it in your own projects, commercial ones included, as long as what you uploaded was yours to use. Unsaved results are deleted after 24 hours, so save the ones you want to keep.
Can I use a photo of someone else?
Only photos of adults, of yourself or of people who agreed to it, and only images you have the right to edit. Every upload goes through the same safety checks as the rest of PixelDojo.