World's Best AI to Color B&W Photos... and it's Free!

[@marieloch8351]

I cannot emphasize enough how this video has improved my black and white to color images. I create coloring books and colorize them for the covers. This step is a TOTAL GAMECHANGER! The images after colorization are crap until using the steps outlined in this video. There is virtually NO noise or pixelation. I don't know how you figure these things out but I am forever grateful and appreciate all the time and effort you put into your videos.

[@stevegrothe7877]

Thanks! For us amateurs restoring our parents and grandparents B&Ws - this is the best! You rock!

[@Photo_doctor]

True! This guy is clever and truly helpful

[@100merijung]

I have always struggled with coloring black and white images. That's right, sometimes even the neural filters don't yield satisfactory results plus, all that amount of manual painting job was such a pain. Thanks a lot by sharing this trick. You Sir are indeed an expert in the photo editing and designing skill.

[@victorzhizhiyan785]

>>You Sir are indeed an expert in the photo editing and designing skill.

[@100merijung]

@@victorzhizhiyan785 Bitwa.itna chaap mat le. Dono ka arth ek hi hai...

[@Zamora7]

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[@AxR558]

Just tested the AI colourising thing on a photo from my wedding, I have the original colour shot and a black and white version of it, the AI did a surprisingly good job - a solid 8/10. Things it missed were the colour of the stone walls in the background (by a lot), skin tones were over reddened and navy blues were shown as black or dark greys. It also seemed to have some issues with working out what was visible between legs - in my case it made the grass a deep red. It's very impressive none-the-less, it would just need some minor tweaking to make everything look right.

[@casacarroll]

Awesome! Incredibly helpful. I just cleaned out my parents attic and now have all their b&w pics. This includes their wedding album from 66 years ago. I’m looking forward to giving this a try.

[@lilzajane]

I just took an old picture of my great aunts when they were children and colourized it.. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I will be looking at "fixing" the green people in the sun damaged pictures at our cottage when I go there in the summer!

[@blakesaupe129]

The fact that it’s possible to color black and white photos from a while ago with decent accuracy is just incredible! Technology has advanced. If I could afford photoshop, I could totally see myself getting lost in just coloring photos for fun.

[@jxwol]

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[@blakesaupe129]

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[@MatttAt]

I can think of two features to make this much better. They should add a color picker option for parts of the image. I have a black and white photo of a scale model but I have the real world pantone values of the paint used when it was manufactured. It could apply the correct colorization that way. They should also allow you to upload an image that already has the coloring/style you want to apply so the AI can analyze it and give your photo the same look. I would buy a plugin or software that does this in a heartbeat.

[@mairwyncurtis2102]

I learned this little trick from you and I have just gone back to the website just now. You can no longer do this as they put a watermark on the small image that you use to bring in a change the layer to colour. Just thought I would let you know.

[@jeanfernandez6063]

Brilliant tutorial...as always! I love how you find new programs and features for all of us to experiment with. You are my idol!!

[@TheOnlyGuess]

This is great

[@sirtalkalotdoolittle]

I just finished a project of hand-colouring about 75 black and white photos using an open-source application and every moment of it was a joy for me. I realize it's not for everyone, but I can't imagine using AI. Note that I didn't say "never." I'm not that dumb.

[@bgmboombox]

What's the application name

[@cvb-art]

You know what, fun is fun. People do coloring books, it's a fun process to color things. If it is a money business and you need it all done super fast, then AI is a great thing too. I work in an office where I have to get photoshops done in minutes. I have little choice but use shortcuts.

[@mrouquin]

He is using a tool and sometimes these tools can make your life easier and faster then doing it manually. So he is not dumb he is smart and up to date.

[@Sicram]

@@mrouquin No one said he was dumb.

[@pedrogorilla483]

Good for you. Hope you can survive.

[@ritahunterlafavorita]

I just about fell off my chair at 2:09 OMG Thank you SOOOOO much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[@Vinterbukser]

Regarding finding collections of old photos, I used to go to local postcard fairs and there were always lots of old Victorian, Edwardian etc. photos, too, and they were relatively inexpensive. Lots of Daguerre types and reproductions on postcards dating form the period. It's fascinating looking at the faces of people who are now long gone who were in their prime when the photo was taken. You can easily build a good collection this way.

[@DjoYazid]

once you said "i'll show you another way" i understand were you going immediately 😂 only photoshop experts understand each other that quickly

[@zardes123]

Hi , I found a not perfect but acceptable solution . Most of the times they put the watermark in the same place , so rotate your pictures until the watermark is someplace where dark pants or unimportant place of the picture is , if the place is dark it will be invisible . When you change the blending to color from photoshop the watermark disapears anyway , it's just a small dark rectangle barely visible , if it's on a dark spot (like pants and such it will be invisible).

[@teachgold]

A simple trick to upscale. Use a 4k or 8k monitor and screen grab. The screen image is close to the HD that costs and no PS was harmed in the rez increase.

[@christinavigorandmoxie]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this!! I just sat and did a few of my dad's old photos and this is a game changer for colorizing photos!

[@mitramahmoudzade5514]

Can’t say anything but OMG :| Thank you so much for these types of videos

[@guaranygabriel4459]

Amazing, simple, and so instructive. Thank you so much. Got the BW to another level

[@TheSlajel]

Wow just wow, you're so inventive. I am impressed. Incredibly! You really try hard to make the video always different or to improve the technique. Thank you for your effort!

[@AleWebCreate]

Again... A.I. is going to change everything. Nothing will be the same. It's really mind blowing, and we are just at the beginning

[@Baran_Korkmaz]

Your videos always shows up in my feed when I need them. Great content as always. Keep up the good work and take care of yourself.

[@MrOliverfh]

Thanks so much for the video! While I don’t have Photoshop, I tried the exact same trick using Luminar Neo and was ecstatic to get the same result, by selecting Color for the coloured Layer overlay

[@oumguptahello]

unmesh that's really good of you that you keeping us engage introducing these new amazing tools of AI via your tutorials . I really appreciate your work and your very industrious man!

[@dychui]

You are a wonderful teacher. I love how information dense your videos are. I always learn a lot quickly.

[@babylonian]

hahahah you rule - extremely clever using the colors from the free version. excellent video!

[@marks7192]

Man your presentation is so good. Studio is great content wonderful. I just wish i had more time to try the great things youre doing. !

[@hakodanburo9420]

This what it mean we need to live along AI. Not rejected them

[@WarpathMaus]

The hell?, did you even think what will happen in the negative thought yet? Elon Musk once said "AI is more far dangerous than nukes"1

[@mikeschiavoni5973]

Hmmmmm. So the way that will go is if you cant program or fix robots you are just a parasite.

[@cammy85]

Thanks very much for the tips!! I didn't know we could customize the descriptions too. My 26 year old grad class picture looks perfect once I added the cap and gown colours!!

[@insoft_uk]

It’s exactly what I was thinking soon it he pointed out it’s the low res version, as in compression one tip is reduce the resolution of the colour and maintain more of the grayscale channel as the human eye is more sensitive to contrast than colour. Good tip tho now it’s made more people aware of this trick I bet it won’t be long they be adding water mark unless you pay

[@eventsbyibrahim]

How to remove water mark, easy peasy 😊

[@Bluedex2011]

Awesome, thanks for sharing. Compare to colorize in PS, it's streets ahead. I've been trying to colorize a B&W film, but the colors are not always correct and suffer from flashes of red or blue in places. I don't have the knowledge to fix this, but it would be neat if I could run the whole thing through Palette FM to get the consistency - or perhaps colorize all 200K frames individually 😂

[@Joe-lb8qn]

I had a black and white photo i uploaded it dida great job but the dress was blue, and i happen to know it was red, so i put "red dress" in the description and the image came back same as before but with red dress. Awesome.

[@mickue]

Best KZbin channel... ever

[@liverpoolpictorial]

You Sir are a genius as and crafty as a fox. Thank you.

[@rockyfellaashiagbor6462]

You're the best teacher I've met so far. Keep up the good work

[@Momijishii]

thank you! this is literally the best channel for photoshop tutorials.

[@itsmelly_121]

You are the best when it comes to Photoshop tutorials!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! The best!

[@Hope19987]

What can I give you more than THANKYOU 😊 THANKYOU SO MUCH.....

[@pfunk360]

For the life of me I can't figure how you can consume so much knowledge and regurgitate it out. Are you sure you are not part AI? Mannn, you are the best in the business. If you come to Chicago, me and my wife to love to meet you and show you our City. Dinner is on me!!!

[@CannonCraft]

Photoshop artist here! This is an amazingly helpful channel - you've earned a subscriber :)

[@philip7825]

How do you make sure you're aligning everything properly? I know how to place the second layer exactly at the left upper corner of the canvas, but I don't know how to scale it exactly to the right lower corner.

[@jpegvids]

I had the same question, Phillip. Try this: Select VIEW > SNAP TO > ALL when adjusting the second layer. It snaps it to the first layer like a charm!

[@locoeditbreakdown5427]

We dont need AI. We just need this channel Love

[@minhngo154]

Amazing tip! Can't say thank you enough, this would be a perfect gift for my dad who has tons of BW old photos. Your channel is the best out there!

[@janoti6073]

is there a software doing the same for videos?

[@Brian737]

Excellent !!! I have been working on an old photo. I luv your techniques . We are happy to have you teach us.

[@neiltroutman7190]

Just tried this simply trick on a couple of photos, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@duncan3998]

Your voice is like ASMR to me. Soothing at it's fullest

[@DJJS7]

I love your channel! Please keep doing these types of videos!

[@jaydencollier5265]

THIS IS WHY I SUBSCRIBED! This has got to be the coolest thing ive ever seen!

[@Moller1955]

I was only able to colour one photo and then asked to sign up…😳

[@gensukehaneda8899]

Thank you very much for bringing back the old vibrant filters.👍

[@BrianBerneker]

I think a lot of these new AI colourization tools are amazing but they are opinionated about what constitutes a recolouring of the image in a way that looks a bit like old sepia tone instead of modern rich color. I think this could be to do with the training models they use relying on old color print processes instead of modern ones. While this can simulate an "authentic" looking recolourization, what I'd really like to see is full rich color restoration, including eyes, lips, hair etc. and chromatic shift in shadows. Too often recolorization from black and white looks like a solid blob of color overlaid on some blending mode rather than actual full color restoration accounting color reflections, bounce light etc.

[@joaodasilva8008]

Agree

[@artistjoh]

I hate it when people try to replace the beauty of black and white and invent colors for the image. As there is no way to know what the original colors in the image were. The clothes that are shown as blue, for example, could have been a shade of green, grey, purple etc. The creamy wallpaper could have been a pale pink, blue or green etc. This means the colorized version is little more than a misleading interpretation. This means the personality of the person is ignored. Most people have favorite colors, and other colors they detest. To put a person in blue when they would never wear blue is disrespectful. Old black and white photographs have a lot of beauty all of their own, and it conveys the sense of the time when the photograph was taken. It puts us in touch with these people. We can imagine them looking through family photographs, most or all of which would be black and white. It helps us experience their time and lives.

[@bennyob01]

This is so helpful, thank you. Since having to sell my Mac, I’ve had to make do with iPad PS that doesn’t include any neural filters.

[@pravin9803]

This is so useful. Will try restoring some old B&W photos that I have. Thanks for the video.

[@4th]

MAN IS A MAD SCIENTIST ! great video bro !!

[@hellionrage]

Wow... I recently started working photo restaurations and this is amazing. Thank you so much... 😳😳😳👍👍👍

[@MrShuchaoyi]

Now it's not working anymore, they applied a watermark to their downloaded image.

[@lizzymccormic3328]

i took a color pic of myself as a kid and used that ai. as a result my red dress turned blue, my red hair turned different colors depending on filter. some changed my eye color to brown... so, when coloring use your experience too...

[@DE-signYourLife]

Wooow, just woow again unmesh! You are a genius!

[@infographie]

Excellent

[@chrisfourie]

Sadly they now add a watermark to all images you colorized

[@TOTAL457]

Well done. I am a Patreon and I will continue to support you. Thanks.

[@ZitoxLD]

Does this exists for videos too? Like old VHS?

[@KolTregaskes]

You could also use an AI upscaler to.get higher resolution versions. 😃

[@eyecandy5984]

The Photoshop tip is sheer brilliance- thanks a lot! 😘🤗

[@ceruleanswim]

So clever! I have a stack of family photos I have been hoping to restore - this will help so much!

[@magnu75]

I love the results with PalletteFM! I have a question that someone may be able to answer? As many know, you can use Photoshop to batch process frames from a video and convert B&W videos into color. However, I am wondering if it's in any way possible to do this if the colours have been imported from outside of Photoshop (ie PalletteFM)???

[@NikonJax]

My Heritage has a tool icon where you can change saturation and contrast....

[@SebElimbi]

u sir are the Goat!! When I tell you ive been looking for a way for hours! I died laughing when I saw how simple you made it lol

[@satishpednekar60]

You are true Guruji and very fascinating of your teaching style.

[@robotsandpolygons]

I was watching so many ai aided tools by this guy and I have to say that they are all really amazing.

[@thebongboy4321]

You are God of photoshop 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@dctrex]

You sneaky devil! That's why I love ya!! 😃🤣👏👏👏

[@avviano]

Sneaky, sleak and cool. Thanks for sharing this trick..

[@ezequieldonadio7304]

Always the best tips. Thanks! 👏👏👏

[@21EC]

Wow...that idea you came up with with the colors on top is simply genius ! how did you manage to come up with it? I was sure you are about to do a upscale of the resolution with another AI but surprisingly you did this clever trick..nice !

[@ralphwatson7036]

Appreciate your work. You are (you know where I'm going with this)...the man!!

[@diegoperezvaldes3207]

Great video, great tutorial, great content, really thank you so much for this. A hug from Chile.

[@user-ty7kn7we8r]

Wow, that's incredible; many thanks for the tutorial

[@Pixeloffical232]

I always love your tips and your videos

[@Susanne-B.]

Thanks! perfect! ... ... and a year later, one of the best useful tip ever.

[@kwajongenscommunicatie6201]

Super! The link to the photo restoration doesn't work ... what should it be?

[@ezequieldonadio7304]

You are the Messi of PS! 😁🐐🏆🥇

[@Hector_Malot]

JC Maxwell had already figured out how to color with black and white in 1861, long before Photoshop.

[@test101me]

Thank You so much. now i can use it to colored my late mother photos.

[@supunsrinath]

Very usefull. Thanks❤

[@AndreaP76]

The photoshop trick...you're the best!👍

[@scottclark3139]

that is next level clever......and sneaky

[@direnbhatsavesoil9628]

Jai Sri Ram 🙏 🌸 ♥ 🚩 🙏 Your voice-over skills are amazing and your knowledge of your field also.

[@stevesculptor1]

Excellent as always. What do I do to change a part of the photo to a specific colour? back to photoshop?

[@PIERCED6966]

Best tutorial seen in a long time, you got a new followering

[@jabolkot22003]

You are a genius. You save me a tons of time. Thanks really enjoy this video.

[@glennchugg6015]

Thank you, MyHeritage did such a good job and I was looking for a way to not have to subscribe to a service to do this as I only do photos for my Family to enjoy and don't make money from it, so this was perfect for me.

[@johncitizen8828]

Great - what are the best AI tools for restoring lost detail on a very old photograph? I have an old photo of a long gone beloved pet - and its white fur is completely blown out. How can I restore this detail?

[@MikkoTyllinen]

awesome! Thank you!!

[@Prodigy396]

Thank you bro, I was looking for an AI that could color black & white images.

[@alyahyai]

Palette is really good, tried all other ones, this one is the best. Thank you

[@paulconibearmusic]

Now this one has blown me away briliant thanks very much

[@Markasjanvarious]

Thank you sir 😊 God Bless You 🙏🥰💐❤